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Python Web Scraping & Competitive Intelligence

Monitoring competitor pricing in real time with Playwright and Scrapy allows e-commerce platforms to dynamically adjust product margins via algorithmic pricing engines.

By Kenneth D'SilvaReading Time: 36 min readCategory: Architecture & Cloud

Playwright Async Python Scraper Script

# Python Async Playwright Competitive Price Monitor
import asyncio
from playwright.async_api import async_playwright

async def scrape_price(url):
    async with async_playwright() as p:
        browser = await p.chromium.launch(headless=True)
        page = await browser.new_page()
        await page.goto(url)
        price_text = await page.locator('.product-price').inner_text()
        await browser.close()
        return price_text

# Run scraper
# asyncio.run(scrape_price('https://competitor.com/item'))

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