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discover_shops

Find untracked specialist shops by niche, country, traffic, live-ad activity and ecommerce platform.

Use discover_shops when the user wants new competitors or specialist stores they have not already added to Shop Tracker.

Inputs

FieldTypeRequiredNotes
storeIds[]YesAlways empty for global discovery
querystringYesProduct niche, 2–120 characters
limitnumberYes1–8
sortenumYesrelevance, traffic, live_ads
countriesstring[]YesZero to eight uppercase country codes
minTrafficnumberNoNon-negative monthly-traffic threshold
minLiveAdsnumberNoNon-negative observed live-ad threshold
shopifyOnlybooleanYesRestrict to detected Shopify shops

Example call

{
  "storeIds": [],
  "query": "creatine gummies",
  "limit": 6,
  "sort": "traffic",
  "countries": ["US", "GB"],
  "minTraffic": 100000,
  "minLiveAds": 10,
  "shopifyOnly": true
}

Good prompt

Discover 6 Shopify stores selling creatine gummies in the US or UK.
Require at least 100k monthly visits and 10 live ads, then rank by traffic.

Result behavior

Shops already tracked by the connected organization are excluded. A returned shop is a research result only; it is not added to Shop Tracker until a user explicitly tracks it in WhatWins.

Traffic and live-ad thresholds are competitive filters, not proof of revenue or spend.

Credits

The tool reserves the requested limit and settles against the number of shops actually returned.