How to Track New Product Launches with OpenClaw
Track new product launches with OpenClaw and ToolRouter. Schedule recurring catalogue extractions and generate automated launch-detection reports.
Tool
OpenClaw automates recurring catalogue monitoring — re-scraping competitor or supplier catalogues on a schedule, maintaining the rolling SKU baseline, and surfacing new launches the moment they appear. This is the right approach for continuous competitive intelligence without human polling.
Connect ToolRouter to OpenClaw
1Install the CLI
npm install -g toolrouter-mcp2Call tools directly from OpenClaw
toolrouter-mcp call web-search search --query "AI tools"
toolrouter-mcp toolsSteps
Once connected (see setup above), use the Catalogue Scraper tool:
- List the catalogue URLs to monitor and the initial SKU baseline for each.
- Run `catalogue-scraper` with `scrape_catalogue` against each catalogue on your chosen schedule.
- Diff each run against the stored baseline and record new SKUs to a launch log.
- Generate a weekly launch report grouped by catalogue and category, and alert on any single-day launch over a threshold.
Example Prompt
Try this with OpenClaw using the Catalogue Scraper tool
Use catalogue-scraper to monitor https://competitor-a.com/products and https://competitor-b.com/products daily. Track new SKUs in a persistent baseline, and generate a weekly launch report grouped by competitor and category. Alert immediately if any single competitor launches more than 5 new products in one day — that usually signals a range refresh.
Tips
- Run monitoring daily — waiting weekly delays launch detection by up to 6 days and loses the first-mover advantage.
- Alert on launch clusters (5+ in a day) rather than individual launches — single new SKUs are noise, batches are strategy.
- Keep the historical launch log so you can correlate competitor launch cadence with your own sales patterns.
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