Pricetracker

Application to track prices from websites e.g. amazon, ebay, etc.

Prerequisites

Prerequisites to use the application:

• request - to fetch data from the url

install the package via pip:

pip install request

• BeautifulSoup - to scrape information from webpages install the package via pip:

pip install bs4

Usage

1. Define the url you wanna watch under the url variable
2. Define your User-Agent from your Webbrowser (Google: "My User Agent" to find yours)
3. Match the length of your price in the variable converted_price (e.g. [0:5] stands for five digits before the comma)
4. Define a limit, if it's undershot you'll get notificated
5. Link your personal mail
6. Define how often the link should be checked