Price-drop watcher
Watch a specific stay and get alerted the moment its total price falls to or below your threshold.
What it does
The job it gets done
Track a known listing for specific dates on a schedule and alert when its total price falls to or below a threshold you set. It calls GET /v1/price, compares the returned totalPrice to your priceBelow threshold, and — tracking the last-alerted price in static data — fires only on a NEW drop (first time below, or a further drop since the last alert) with the new price and a booking link. This is the automation twin of the App’s price-drop saved search.
How it works
Step by step
- 1
Pick the stay and set a threshold
Set the platform, listing id, check-in / check-out dates and occupancy, plus the total-price threshold you want to be alerted below.
- 2
Re-price on a schedule
Every few hours the workflow calls GET /v1/price for the listing and dates, returning a real numeric total for that stay.
- 3
Compare to the threshold and de-dup
A Code node checks the total against your threshold and against the last-alerted price (stored in n8n static data), so it fires only on a genuinely new drop — never twice for the same price.
- 4
Send the price-drop alert
When the price drops, a message with the new total, the threshold, the per-night rate and a booking link is posted to Slack — swap for email, Telegram or Discord.
What you'll need
Two ways to run it
Using an AI agent
Just your ScoutingAPI key. Your agent is the brain — it calls the endpoint and reports the result itself, so there's no separate AI key to buy. Install the SKILL.md below.
Using n8n
A running n8n instance, the workflow JSON below, a ScoutingAPI Header Auth credential, and a delivery credential (e.g. Slack) — or swap the last node. The transform is plain JavaScript, so no LLM key is required.
Try it live
Run the core call now — sandbox, 0 credits
Exercise the endpoint this workflow is built on against the deterministic sandbox — a real 200, zero credits, no sign-up.
/v1/priceRuns against the deterministic Booking sandbox fixture — a real 200, zero credits.
Run the call to see a live, deterministic sandbox response.
curl -sS "https://api.scoutingapi.com/v1/price" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SCOUTINGAPI_KEY"Code samples
The same call, every way that matters
curl -sS "https://api.scoutingapi.com/v1/price?platform=booking&listingId=abramovic2&checkIn=2026-07-13&checkOut=2026-07-20&adults=2¤cy=EUR" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SCOUTINGAPI_KEY"Get it for your platform
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Typical cost
≈ 3 credits per run.
price· 3 credits per callprice-compare· 22 credits per call
Failed & empty calls are always free; sandbox calls cost 0. Live costs are on the pricing page.
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