What does this automation do?
Every hour the page is scraped, converted to clean text, matched against the numbers you track, and compared by an agent.
What can you do with it?
- Hear about a price change in an hour, not in a quarterly review
- Compare against the last observed value instead of a screenshot
- Get the change explained in an email, not just flagged
The Steps
This automation runs in 6 steps:
- When Schedule — Every hour
- Then Media — Read a web page
- Then Utilities — HTML to Markdown
- Then Utilities — Text Regex Match
- Then Taskade AI — Ask an agent ("Pricing Watch")
- Then Taskade — Send an email
What makes this different from a Zapier-style flow?
The "Pricing Watch" step is not a one-off model call. It is a Taskade AI agent that knows the competitors and plans you track, remembers the last price it saw on each page, so every run builds on the last one instead of starting from an empty prompt.
A stateless "ask the model" step forgets everything the moment it returns. An agent keeps its knowledge and its memory between runs, carries its own tools, and can be handed work by other automations.
Who is this automation for?
Built for pricing, product marketing and revenue teams. Every hour the page is scraped, converted to clean text, matched against the numbers you track, and compared by an agent.
How do you set it up?
- Open the "Automations" tab in your workspace.
- Click ➕ Add automation, then start from scratch.
- Add the trigger "Every hour" from Schedule.
- Add the action "Read a web page" from Media.
- Add the action "HTML to Markdown" from Utilities.
- Add the action "Text Regex Match" from Utilities.
- Add the action "Ask an agent" from Taskade AI. Point it at an agent called "Pricing Watch".
- Add the action "Send an email" from Taskade.
- Enable the toggle in the top-right corner to activate the automation.
Prefer to describe it instead? Click Build this flow with AI above and Taskade wires the trigger, the steps, and the agent for you.