├── README.md
└── price-tracker.py


/README.md:
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 1 | # amazon-price-tracker-python
 2 | This is a simple price tracker app using python that regularly compares the prices of your favorite stuff on amazon and sends you a customized notification email to tell you if the prices fell down.
 3 | This uses python and implements beautiful soup, smtplib, time and requests modules and libraries.
 4 | The libraries, modules and other tools referred during this task are as follows:
 5 | <h3>Send mail from your Gmail account using Python</h3>
 6 | <ul>
 7 |   <li><a href= "https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/send-mail-gmail-account-using-python/">SMTPlib Tutorial</a></li>
 8 |   <li><a href= "https://realpython.com/python-send-email/">RealPython</a></li>
 9 |   <li><a href= "https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/send-emails-using-code-4fcea9df63f/">Free Code Camp Tutorial</a></li>
10 | </ul>
11 | 
12 | <h3>Price Tracker using Python</h3>
13 | <ul>
14 |   <li><a href= "https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/amazon-product-price-tracker-using-python/">Amazon Product Price Tracker- Geeks for Geeks</a></li>
15 |   <li><a href= "https://www.scrapehero.com/tutorial-how-to-scrape-amazon-seller-prices-using-python/">Scape Hero Tutorial</a></li>
16 |   </ul>
17 |   
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19 | 


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/price-tracker.py:
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 1 | # import required files and modules
 2 | 
 3 | import requests
 4 | from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 5 | import smtplib
 6 | import time
 7 | 
 8 | # set the headers and user string
 9 | headers = {
10 | "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36"
11 | }
12 | 
13 | # send a request to fetch HTML of the page
14 | response = requests.get('https://www.amazon.in/Bose-SoundLink-Wireless-Around-Ear-Headphones/dp/B0117RGG8E/ref=sr_1_11?qid=1562395272&refinements=p_89%3ABose&s=electronics&sr=1-11', headers=headers)
15 | 
16 | # create the soup object
17 | soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'html.parser')
18 | 
19 | # change the encoding to utf-8
20 | soup.encode('utf-8')
21 | 
22 | #print(soup.prettify())
23 | 
24 | # function to check if the price has dropped below 20,000
25 | def check_price():
26 |   title = soup.find(id= "productTitle").get_text()
27 |   price = soup.find(id = "priceblock_ourprice").get_text().replace(',', '').replace('₹', '').replace(' ', '').strip()
28 |   #print(price)
29 | 
30 |   #converting the string amount to float
31 |   converted_price = float(price[0:5])
32 |   print(converted_price)
33 |   if(converted_price < 20000):
34 |     send_mail()
35 | 
36 |   #using strip to remove extra spaces in the title
37 |   print(title.strip())
38 | 
39 | 
40 | 
41 | 
42 | # function that sends an email if the prices fell down
43 | def send_mail():
44 |   server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
45 |   server.ehlo()
46 |   server.starttls()
47 |   server.ehlo()
48 | 
49 |   server.login('email@gmail.com', 'password')
50 | 
51 |   subject = 'Price Fell Down'
52 |   body = "Check the amazon link https://www.amazon.in/Bose-SoundLink-Wireless-Around-Ear-Headphones/dp/B0117RGG8E/ref=sr_1_11?qid=1562395272&refinements=p_89%3ABose&s=electronics&sr=1-11 "
53 | 
54 |   msg = f"Subject: {subject}\n\n{body}"
55 |   
56 |   server.sendmail(
57 |     'sender@gmail.com',
58 |     'receiver@gmail.com',
59 |     msg
60 |   )
61 |   #print a message to check if the email has been sent
62 |   print('Hey Email has been sent')
63 |   # quit the server
64 |   server.quit()
65 | 
66 | #loop that allows the program to regularly check for prices
67 | while(True):
68 |   check_price()
69 |   time.sleep(60 * 60)


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