About restockme

restockme is a hosted alert service for Etsy buyers. You paste the link of a listing that is sold out, and it emails you when that listing is buyable again.

Why it exists

Etsy has no back-in-stock notification. Handmade and vintage listings are frequently one-of-one or made in small runs, so the thing you wanted is often simply gone, and the only way to catch a restock is to keep opening the tab yourself. That is the entire gap this fills.

How it works

• You sign in with Google. restockme reads your email address and nothing else.
• You add listings by pasting an Etsy link or a listing id. Up to 50 at a time.
• A scheduled job runs every hour. It asks the Etsy Open API for the current state and quantity of every watched listing in one batched request.
• When a listing goes from unavailable to available, you get an email — one message covering everything that came back that hour.
• Every link goes to the listing on etsy.com. Buying happens there, as usual.

Why hourly

Because a daily check would mostly tell you about restocks you already missed. A small maker who relists six of something on a Tuesday morning can be sold out by the afternoon. Hourly is the coarsest interval at which the alert is still worth sending.

What it uses from Etsy

Public endpoints of the Etsy Open API v3 only, authenticated with an application keystring: public listing detail, fetched in batches. There is no OAuth flow, no access to any Etsy member's private data, and restockme never asks anyone to connect an Etsy account.

How it is paid for

It isn't. restockme is free, carries no advertising, and has no affiliate links — the links in the app and in the alert emails are plain links to the listing on etsy.com. If that ever changes, this page will say so before it does.

Who runs it

Built and run by one independent developer. Not affiliated with Etsy, Inc. Questions go to the support page.