micro-center-price-monitor 0.0.6

Price monitor tool for Micro Center

Micro Center Scraper Using Beautiful Soup

Table of Contents

• Project Description
• How to Use
• Packages Used
• Installation
• Other Requirements
• To Do List

Project Description

This is a simple Python web scraper to monitor prices on Micro Center's online store for a product you may be interested in.

How to Use:

Upon running the program: there will be a prompt to provide a product to search:

• Enter the name of the product and hit Return.
• There will be a list of results with corresponding index values. Provide the index value for the product you want to monitor, and hit Return.
• Enter the price threshold you wish to receive a notification for and hit Return. The program will loop continuously until your product meets or goes below expected price and an email notification will be sent.

Packages Used

• bs4: version 0.0.1
• beautifulsoup4: version 4.7.1
• requests: version 2.22.0
• lxml: version 4.3.4

Installation

Install micro-center-price-monitor with pip:

pip install micro-center-price-monitor

Other Requirements

• You will need a Gmail Account set up with "Allowing less secure apps to access your account" enabled. This is not recommended for a user's main Gmail account. Using a burner gmail account is recommended in this instance.

• Include login info in System User Variables:

  • "EMAIL_USER" -> set to gmail address
  • "EMAIL_PASS" -> set to gmail password

TO-DO LIST:

• Inclusion of pages 2..n for search results longer than 1 page.