This is a Python script that accepts a product name as arguments and then shows its current price fetched from Amazon & Flipkart and notify when its price drops to or below the defined price.
The product name can be both an exact product name (Intel i7 6700k) or a generic name (Bluetooth headphones). In case of a generic name display the first search result with its price.
After displaying the price, provide an option to set a price drop alert. On selecting to set a price drop alert, ask for a price and email id and set a notification.
If a notification is set, monitor the price of the product and alert the user by email when the price drops to or below the defined price.
- Currently it is working fine to extract the records from Flipkart and set a price alert on that.
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Unable to extract data from Amazon
Reason: It's because Amazon doesn't allow automated access to their data, so they're rejecting your request because it didn't come from a proper browser. So to implemented these functionality we need an AWS API to get the price list of product from Amazon. Currently looking for a free AWS API that can suite this project requirement.
- Needs to implement error handling.
- Needs to improve GUI (HTML & CSS)
- Python Version 3.6.4
- django.VERSION (1, 9, 4, 'final', 0)
- BeautifulSoup required for scraping
- django-celery module required to run priceCompare.py in a regular interval to check if price has been dropped.
- If you need help to setup django-celery, please follow this link
- Needs to update priceCompare.py to set Email_ID and password of email sender's account. Currently it is set as "dummy".
- Currently mail server name is set for hotmail/outlook. Update it if you are using Gmail or any ohter mail server
UserName = "dummy"
Password = "dummy"
s = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.live.com', 587)