Watch any product page for price or stock changes. Unlimited watchers, your server.
Creators bleed money on per-month editing, caption and thumbnail tools that charge more the more they publish. Pay-once apps let them produce unlimited content without a meter running.
The tool this job usually means renting is Distill, at $12/mo — roughly $144 a year, every year. Hawkwatch does the job for a one-time $89 — running on infrastructure you control.
Parses JSON-LD Product/Offer data with og:price and microdata fallbacks — most modern shops work with zero configuration.
For content creators, auto price detection pays off when there's a publishing schedule to hit — and it's covered by the same one-time $89, not metered per month.
For pages without structured data, paste a selector. Locale-aware parsing: $1,299.00, 1.299,00 €, 1 299,00 kr all parse correctly.
For content creators, CSS selector mode pays off when there's a publishing schedule to hit — and it's covered by the same one-time $89, not metered per month.
From JSON-LD availability, an element selector, or a keyword regex against page text — get pinged the second it flips.
For content creators, stock tracking pays off when there's a publishing schedule to hit — and it's covered by the same one-time $89, not metered per month.
One-time $89 for the packaged Windows installer with updates — Chromium download handled for you.
Desktop app with data in your user profile, or Docker on a $5 VPS with Chromium baked into the image.
Hawkwatch auto-detects the price, checks on your schedule, and emails or webhooks you — screenshot included — when something moves.
Hawkwatch is $89, once. Distill at $12/mo — roughly $144 a year, every year. Distill Starter costs $144/year. Hawkwatch pays for itself in under 8 months — and it never bills you again.
Distill Starter costs $144/year. Hawkwatch pays for itself in under 8 months — and it never bills you again. Hawkwatch costs $89 once; Distill charges $12/mo — about $144 a year. For content creators, that fixed cost is the whole point: the tool is a one-time line item, not a monthly one.
Yes — MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/hawkwatch-mvp, always. The $89 buys the packaged installer, 1-click setup and updates instead of npm and a terminal.
Amazon's Terms of Service prohibit automated access, and Hawkwatch won't pretend otherwise — there's no proxy rotation or captcha solving, and there never will be. For Amazon, use their official Product Advertising API (or camelcamelcamel, which is free).