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Piloterr

Extracts product data, pricing, and inventory from major retailers into your database and triggers price alerts when competitors change their listings.

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Why use Ceven?

  1. AI native Piloterr integration

    • Describe the outcome and Ceven picks the right Piloterr calls, fills the parameters, and checks the result.
    • Structured, agent friendly tool schemas so each call runs reliably instead of by guesswork.
    • Rich coverage for reading, writing, and querying your Piloterr data, across all 12 of its actions.

  2. Managed auth

    • Built in OAuth with automatic token refresh and rotation.
    • One place to manage, scope, and revoke Piloterr access.
    • Per user and per environment credentials instead of shared keys.

  3. Agent optimized design

    • Actions are tuned from real success and error rates so reliability climbs over time.
    • Full execution logs so you always know what ran in Piloterr, when, and on whose behalf.
    • The agent pauses and asks when Piloterr is unclear instead of plowing ahead.

  4. Enterprise grade security

    • Fine grained access so you control which agents and people can reach Piloterr.
    • Least privilege by default, read scopes first and only the writes a workflow needs.
    • A full audit trail of every Piloterr action to support review and sign off.

Supported tools

Every action Ceven's agents can run on Piloterr, and when to use it.

Auchan Product Search
Use this when you need product listings and details from Auchan using a query or search url.
Auchan Product Details
Pull detailed Auchan product information when you already have a specific product id.
Bestbuy Product Search
Use this to retrieve Bestbuy items by keywords with optional pagination and price filters.
Get Product Info
Pull full product details including company info by providing a product id.
Get Account Usage
Check current account usage and remaining credits to avoid workflow interruptions.
Amazon Price Check
Retrieve the current price and buy box winner for a specific Amazon product id.
Walmart Search
Search for products on Walmart to compare pricing against other retail sources.
eBay Item Lookup
Pull listing details and current bid prices for specific items on eBay.
Target Product Search
Query Target for specific product categories to analyze regional availability.
AliExpress Data Pull
Extract wholesale pricing and seller ratings for products on AliExpress.
Shopify Store Scraper
Pull the full product catalog from a public Shopify store using the store url.
Google Shopping Search
Search Google Shopping to find the lowest price across multiple vendors.
Auchan Product
Tool to retrieve detailed auchan product information. use when you have a product id.
Piloterr Get Product Info
Tool to retrieve detailed product information by product id. use when you need full product details including company info.
Get Usage
Tool to get usage information and remaining credits for your piloterr account. use when you need to check account usage and credit details.

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Frequently asked questions

Ceven monitors your Piloterr credit balance through the Get Usage tool to ensure workflows do not fail silently. You can configure the agent to send a Slack notification or an email when your credits drop below a certain threshold. This prevents critical price monitoring tasks from stopping unexpectedly. Since Piloterr uses a credit based system where different APIs cost different amounts, the agent calculates the estimated cost of a bulk search before execution. If the request exceeds your remaining balance, the agent will pause the workflow and ask for a top up rather than attempting a call that will result in a 402 payment required error.
Yes. Piloterr handles the infrastructure side of web scraping, which includes proxy rotation and CAPTCHA solving. When Ceven makes a request to a Piloterr API, Piloterr manages the browser headers and solves any challenges presented by the target website before returning the clean JSON data to the workflow. This means you do not need to provide your own proxy list or solve puzzles manually. The agent simply receives the structured data it needs to perform the rest of the workflow, such as updating a price in your database or sending an alert, without worrying about the underlying bot detection mechanisms.
One of the primary benefits of using Piloterr through Ceven is that you are not maintaining custom CSS selectors. Piloterr maintains the APIs, meaning they update the extraction logic whenever a site like Best Buy or Auchan changes its HTML structure. If an API returns an error or empty data, Ceven will log the failure and can be set to retry after a short delay. Because the maintenance happens at the Piloterr level, your Ceven workflows remain stable and you do not have to rewrite your data mapping logic every time a retail website pushes a front end update.
The limit is determined by your Piloterr plan and their specific API rate limits. For example, some tiers may limit the number of concurrent requests per second. If Ceven hits a rate limit, the Piloterr API will return a 429 too many requests response. Ceven is built to handle this by implementing an exponential backoff strategy, meaning the agent will wait a few seconds and then try again. For very large datasets, we recommend using the pagination parameters provided in the search tools to break the request into smaller chunks, which ensures higher reliability and avoids triggering security flags.
Piloterr provides over 50 specialized APIs covering the most popular global retailers and platforms. This includes major players like Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, and Auchan, as well as specialized platforms like eBay and AliExpress. New APIs are added frequently as demand grows. You can use the search tools within Ceven to see if a specific domain is supported. If a specific store is not available as a dedicated API, the agent can sometimes use more general web extraction tools, though the dedicated APIs are always more reliable because they return structured JSON instead of raw HTML that requires parsing.
Piloterr returns the data exactly as it appears on the live website at the moment of the request. Because it performs real time scraping rather than relying on a cached database, the pricing and inventory levels are as current as possible. However, some websites use dynamic pricing based on the user location or device. Piloterr allows for some level of geographic targeting through its proxy network, and Ceven can be configured to pull data from specific regions to ensure the pricing reflects the local market you are targeting. This makes it highly accurate for competitive intelligence.
No, Piloterr is a data extraction layer, not a storage layer. It fetches the data on demand and sends it back to Ceven. Once the API call is complete, Piloterr does not keep a permanent record of the product details for your account. This is why Ceven is essential for this integration, as the agent takes the real time response from Piloterr and writes it into your chosen system of record, such as Google Sheets, Airtable, or a SQL database. This ensures you have a historical archive of price changes over time that you own and control.
No. Piloterr is designed for public web scraping and data extraction. It cannot access pages that require a user login, two factor authentication, or private account dashboards. If a product page requires you to be signed in to see the price, Piloterr will likely return the public guest view or an error. This is a fundamental limitation of the platform to ensure compliance with website terms of service and security protocols. For workflows requiring authenticated access, you would need a different tool that supports session cookies or browser automation with manual login.

Alternatives to Piloterr

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