amazon_tracker

simple web scraper that scrapes every x minutes the price of n items and sends an e-mail if the price falls down over p (a price selected by you)

Description 📣

It has been developed using bs4, requests, time and smtplib libraries. Opening it, you can see some variables:

• headers = It's your browser setting. You have to insert YOUR browser header. You can find it typing 'my user agent' on internet.
• URLS = It's a list that contains the urls of your tracked items.
• dream_price = It's a list that contains the dream price of i-th element in URLS.
• from_email = It's the e-mail that sends the notification.
• to_email = It's the e-mail that receive the notification.
• from_password = It's the password needed for the from_email.
• minutes = How many minutes between a check and the next.

It works only with GMail accounts

Download 📡

git clone https://github.com/edoardottt/amazon_tracker.git

Usage 💻

1. Type on your browser 'my user agent' and paste the result in the header variable content.

2. Change all the variables you need (from_email, from_password, to_email, URLS, dream_price and minutes).

3. If you haven't did already, go to https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps and allow it (It's mandatory).

4. Execute the scraper.py file

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