This script sends you an email alert if the Amazon product you are interested in has dropped in price compared to the set price. Be careful not to run it repeatedly in a short amount of time. This script was created to be used daily from a task scheduler.

Python version 3.10.6 or higher installed.

1. Download the project

2. Create an .env file in the root of the project following the example below:

       # ----------------------- SCRAPE SETTINGS ----------------------
       # Note: Change only if necessary
       REQUEST_HEADERS_USER_AGENT="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36"
       REQUEST_HEADERS_ACCEPT_LANG="en-US, en;q=0.5"
       
       # ----------------------- DESIRED PRODUCT ----------------------
       TARGET_PRODUCT_URL="LINK TO AMAZON PRODUCT"
       TARGET_PRODUCT_PRICE=200
   
       # ----------------------- EMAIL SETTINGS -----------------------
       SMTP_SERVER_HOST="smtp.gmail.com"
       SMTP_SERVER_PORT=587
       SMTP_SERVER_USERNAME="YOUR GMAIL ADDRESS"
       SMTP_SERVER_PASSWORD="YOUR GMAIL PASSWORD"
   
       EMAIL_SENDER = "[email protected]"
       # If there is more than one email, separate them with a comma
       EMAIL_RECIPIENTS = "[email protected]"
       # --------------------------------------------------------------

3. Open the project folder in Command Prompt or Terminal.

4. Create a virtual environment and install the dependencies by running the following commands:

   • Using Poetry (if you already have it installed):

         poetry install      # create a virtual environment and install dependencies
         poetry shell        # enable the environment

   • Using built-in venv module:

     • Linux or Mac

         python -m venv venv                 # create a virtual environment
         source venv/bin/activate            # enable the environment            
         pip install -r requirements.txt     # install the dependencies

     • Windows (CMD)

         python -m venv venv                 # create a virtual environment
         venv\Scripts\activate.bat           # enable the environment            
         pip install -r requirements.txt     # install the dependencies

     • Windows (Power Shell)

         python -m venv venv                 # create a virtual environment
         venv\Scripts\activate.ps1           # enable the environment            
         pip install -r requirements.txt     # install the dependencies

    python amazon_price_tracker