(Hinweis: Deutschsprachige README verfügbar)
This little utility keeps an eye on the price of products in supported online shops. If the price changes, an e-mail is sent out.
Shops included as of the time of writing:
- Amazon.de
- Saturn.de
- Mediamarkt.de (use Saturn.de provider in configuration file)
Set up a cron job to execute the script periodically. This will get you informed whenever there is a price change.
A cache file is written to the disk with the last known price and the time of request for every defined product section.
Besides the e-mail notification, output is also written to stdout: Example:
SonyAlphaSaturn: provided price 629.00
SonyAlphaSaturn: Price has changed, new price: 629.0, old price: 639.0
SonyAlphaAmazon: provided price 600.9
Success: True
Success in this case is the overall success flag which considers the
requests of all sections. If one section fails, the flag is set to False.
- Python 3
- python-amazon-simple-product-api (pip install python-amazon-simple-product-api)
- requests
- Beautiful Soup 4
A working e-mail server is needed to relay messages. You might have to adapt the hard-coded server definition in the script file.
See the included pricewatch.ini-example for a basic example of what can be done.
pricewatch.py [-h] [-c <config file>]
-h prints the help
-c set the path to the configuration file
If no configuration file is given, a pricewatch.ini file is searched in the script path.