## **E-Commerce Automation Workflow & Strategy** ### **1. Current Sourcing Process** I'd like to do e-commerce and utilize specific extensions to find products. My sourcing workflow currently relies on an image recognition extension called **AliPrice**. When browsing a marketplace like Amazon, this tool allows me to locate the same product across various other marketplaces, specifically AliExpress. **The Bottleneck:** The main issue is that once I click through AliPrice to view the product on AliExpress, I must wait for the page to load and then manually apply filters. I have to filter for the lowest price and specific shipping countries. I am forced to do this manually because the extension does not support pre-set filters for destination countries or automated sorting by ascending price to find the cheapest option. ### **2. Current Scraping & Importing Process** For the second stage, I use an extension called **DSers** to scrape product data and push it to WooCommerce or other marketplace seller accounts. **The Limitations:** * **Platform Restriction:** It only allows scraping from AliExpress, not from any website. * **Target Restriction:** It cannot send data to every marketplace. * **Bulk Actions:** I cannot paste multiple URLs into the application for mass importing. * **Manual Effort:** Despite these two extensions providing some automation, the process still requires a high volume of manual clicks. ### **3. Automation Objectives & Proposed Tools** My goal is to implement an **AI Agent** to eliminate these repetitive clicks. I am considering two Chrome-based options for the sourcing and scraping phases: **crawl4AI** or **Apify**. **The Strategy:** As a dropshipper, my strategy begins with identifying a product located in a local market (specifically Europe). I then need to find the cheapest version of that product within that specific region using filters. Once the optimal source is identified, I proceed with scraping. I am looking for an application that makes this entire sequence as autonomous as possible.

@Chris Kendig Have I understood correctly that previously, creating a Gmail agent required as many Gmail tools (nodes) as desired actions? For example, if I wanted my Gmail agent to perform five different actions, I needed five Gmail tools, each with its own prompts and configuration, whereas now I only need one Gmail MCP? And for web search, there are several tools for searching on Google or a website; is this now simplified with a single web search MCP?