Smart E‑commerce Price Tracking & Product Intelligence Platform
PriSync is a modern web scraping and price‑monitoring application built with Next.js 16 and Bright Data’s Web Unlocker. It helps users make informed purchasing and business decisions by tracking e‑commerce products (such as Amazon listings), notifying users when prices drop, and alerting competitors when products go out of stock — all powered by automated cron jobs.
Designed with scalability, clean architecture, and reusability in mind, PriSync demonstrates a production‑ready approach to web scraping, data persistence, and automated notifications.
- 📉 Track product price changes in real time
- 📦 Monitor stock availability
- 📬 Automated email alerts for price drops & restocks
- ⏱️ Scheduled scraping via cron jobs
- 🧱 Clean, reusable, and scalable code architecture
- Framework: Next.js 16
- Scraping Infrastructure: Bright Data (Web Unlocker)
- HTML Parsing: Cheerio
- Email Service: Nodemailer
- Database: MongoDB
- UI Components: Headless UI
- Styling: Tailwind CSS
🔗 Bright Data: https://brdta.com/
- Header with Carousel – Visually engaging hero section highlighting key benefits
- Responsive Design – Optimized for all screen sizes
- Amazon Product Scraping – Paste a product URL to fetch live data
- Scraped Products Dashboard – View all tracked products at a glance
- Detailed Product Pages – Displays product image, title, price history, stock status, and metadata
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Track Product Modal – Users opt‑in by providing an email address
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Email Notifications – Alerts for:
- Price drops
- Back‑in‑stock updates
- Lowest price reached
- Cron Jobs – Periodic scraping to keep product data fresh
- Background Jobs – Automated monitoring without manual input
Follow the steps below to run PriSync locally.
Ensure you have the following installed:
- Git
- Node.js (18+ recommended)
- npm
git clone https://github.com/M-tech-cmd/PriSync.gitnpm installCreate a .env file in the project root and add the following:
# SCRAPER
BRIGHT_DATA_USERNAME=
BRIGHT_DATA_PASSWORD=
# DATABASE
MONGODB_URI=
# EMAIL (OUTLOOK)
EMAIL_USER=
EMAIL_PASS=Populate these values with your own credentials.
npm run devOpen http://localhost:3000 in your browser.
- Modular and maintainable architecture
- Secure scraping via proxy‑based infrastructure
- Scalable background automation
- Real‑world e‑commerce use cases
PriSync is suitable for price tracking tools, competitor monitoring platforms, and market intelligence systems.
M-tech-cmd Full‑Stack Developer | Web Scraping & SaaS Builder
