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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