Creating a Price Alert System for Amazon with Python
With this web scraping tool, you can stay on top of the most recent price changes on your favorite products on Amazon. It works with multiple store locations too, so you have more chances to score a great deal!
This will be created with Python and Beautiful Soup, and the program will take care of the heavy work for us. If you want to take it a step further, you can even create an alert system to notify you via email for instance!
Tested for Amazon stores from USA (COM), Germany (DE), France (FR), Spain (ES), Italy (IT), and United Kingdom (CO.UK).
You just need to have a basic understanding of how Python works, and to follow along. I made sure to simplify the code as much as I could, so beginners are welcome! The video is based on an article I wrote for Towards Data Science, so if you get stuck somewhere along the way, make sure you check the article (link below). If you like web scraping, I have other articles and videos, so feel free to explore other content.
Finally, if there is any question you have about the code or any constructive feedback you'd like to share, let me know in the comments. Did you get a super discount on a product you really wanted? I'd love to know that too!
RESOURCES
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Github repository: https://github.com/fnneves/amazon_web...
Medium article: https://bit.ly/2ZbDQPR
SelectorGadget tool: https://selectorgadget.com/
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USEFUL BOOKS
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Excellent book on all things web scraping - https://amzn.to/3QRGzYt
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TIMESTAMPS
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00:00 - Intro
03:11 - What you will need
07:13 - Inspecting pages
11:00 - Finding the title of a product
13:58 - SelectorGadget
17:27 - Amazon_Scraper.py file
24:34 - See it in action!
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