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December 20, 2015 23:04
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Checks Amazon to see if the price of a product has changed, if it's gone lower it'll email you, if not it won't do anything.
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import bs4 | |
import requests | |
def main(): | |
file = open("amazon.txt", 'r') | |
for i in file: | |
print(i) | |
amazon_product = i | |
amazon_product = amazon_product.split(" ") | |
print(amazon_product) | |
amazon_price = amazon_product[0] | |
print(amazon_price) | |
amazon_new = GetAmazonPrice(amazon_product[1]) | |
if amazon_price > amazon_new: | |
amazon_product[0] = amazon_price | |
print("The price is cheaper!") | |
lines = file.readlines() | |
lines[i] = amazon_new | |
file.close() | |
file.open("amazon.txt", 'w') | |
file.write(lines) | |
file.close() | |
else: | |
print("Price has not changed") | |
# send email | |
def GetAmazonPrice(productURL): | |
res = requests.get((productURL)) | |
res.raise_for_status() | |
soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(res.text, 'html.parser') | |
elems = (soup.select(""".a-text-normal""")) | |
price = (elems[0].text.strip()) | |
return price | |
if __name__ == '__main__': | |
main() | |
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