amazon-price-tracking

A Pyton script that allows you to track the price of your favorite Amazon product and send you an email when the desired price is reached

Installation

• Install pyhton 3
• Use the package manager pip to install the modules.

  pip install requests
  pip install smtplib
  pip install bs4
  pip install email

How to use it ?

you have to modify some variables for the script to work well, first modify the url variable by putting the link of your favorite productfrom amazon and the variable MY_USER_AGENT by putting your user agent (search on Google : "My user agent")

extracted from the sendmail() function

SMTP_HOST = "smtp.gmail.com" # smtp server
SMTP_PORT = 587 # smtp server port

# Authentication of your smtp server 
MAIL_ADDRESS = ""
PASSWORD = ""

FROM = MAIL_ADDRESS # YOUR MAIL ADDRESS
TO = MAIL_ADDRESS # you can use a LIST type or STRING type

1. for the SMTP_HOST variable it is the DNS of the smtp (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) server and for SMTP_PORT it is the port where it will listen by default I used port 587 (TLS,Transport Layer Security) which will allow to encrypt the communication between client-server. for more information about this port : Transport Layer Security

2. you must then modify the variables MAIL_ADDRESS and PASSWORD, to connect to the smtp server, if you do not want to put your real password I know that for Google we can generate passwords for applications, for more informations click here : App passwords

to finish you just have to modify the FROM and TO variables for sending mail, for the TO variable you can use a list if you want to send to several people (ex : [[email protected], [email protected]])

Make the script more powerful

instead of using this command

python .\amazon-price-tracking.py

it's better to run your script regularly and automatically on your computer, for Linux there is a crontab command, for Windows I don't know any particular command but I've seen that Scheduled Tasks can do the job.