This is one of the simplest but also challenging project I have built for myself while I want to track the price change to catch a deal of my favorite Bose headphone. It took me more than 20 times to finally get it deployed and ran daily with Digital Ocean. It was fun and that moment I realized the result is always sweet with blood and tears 😉
import csv, smtplib, ssl
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
import time
import creds
HEADERS = {
'User-Agent': ('Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64)'
'AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)'
'Chrome/44.0.2403.157 Safari/537.36'),
'Accept-Language': 'en-US, en;q=0.5'
}
url = "https://www.amazon.com/Bose-Cancelling-Wireless-Bluetooth-Headphones/dp/B07Q9MJKBV?th=1"
html = requests.get(url, headers=HEADERS)
soup = BeautifulSoup(html.content, "lxml")
def get_price():
try:
price = soup.find("span", attrs={'class': 'a-price-whole'}).text.replace('.', '')
except AttributeError:
price = "NA"
return (price)
def emailnew(price):
sender = ""
receiver = ""
password = creds.password
context = ssl.create_default_context()
with smtplib.SMTP_SSL('smtp.gmail.com', 465, context=context) as server:
server.login(sender, password)
server.sendmail(sender, receiver, f"Subject: Price Tracker - Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700 \n\nPrice has been updated to {price} \n\n https://www.amazon.com/Bose-Cancelling-Wireless-Bluetooth-Headphones/dp/B07Q9MJKBV?th=1 ")
emailnew(get_price())
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