psnprices 1.0

Mail alerting for single alerts you define yourself

Just run psnmailalert for mail alerting. See example below. Alerts are set in the alerts.csv file. If no store is set. The german / european store is used as a default.

Command line interface

usage: psncli [-h] [--id ID] [--container CONTAINER] [--store STORE]
                 [--price PRICE] [--query QUERY]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --id ID, -i ID        CID of game to check
  --container CONTAINER, -c CONTAINER
                        Container to list
  --store STORE, -s STORE
                        regional PSN store to check. Default: 'DE/de'
  --price PRICE, -p PRICE
                        desired price of game
  --query QUERY, -q QUERY
                        Name of item to search for

Mail alerting for collections of price reductions

The PlayStation Network creates collections for price reductions. Run python psndealsmailalert.py for watching those collections and be alerted if there are new reductions. Alerts for collections are set in the alert_deal_containers.csv file.

Mail alerting - Get a mail when alerts have been met

With psnmailalert you may set alerts for price drops in the alerts.csv file. The first value is the CID for the item, the second is the price to be matched in order to alert you by mail, and the second value is the store to search in. You may mix stores in the alerts.csv. After a price has been matched, the alert is removed from alerts.csv. You will not get any further alerts for that item.

P0001-NPEJ00305_00-B000000000001030,19.00,DE/de
P0001-NPEJ00305_00-B000000000001030,19.00,DE/de
EP0102-CUSA02521_00-MEGAMANLEGACY000,7.00
UP0102-CUSA02516_00-MEGAMANLEGACY000,7.00,US/en
P0101-ULES01372_00-GPCMETALGE000001,10.00,DE/de

If the store value is left blank, the script tries to extract the store from the beginning character of the CID.

In order to receive mails you have to set your account settings in the file mailconfig.json. See mailconfig.json_example for an example config.

To run psnmailalert, just type:

/psnmailalert

Example mail

Searching for the CID of an item

Define the name of a game and the store.

psncli --query "metal gear solid peace walker psp" --store DE/de

You will get a result containing one to many search results with the CID. The first output of each search line is the CID, the second the name, the third the supported systems and the last is a description of the item type in the local store language. It is “Vollversion” here which means “full version” in German.

EP0101-ULES01372_00-GPCMETALGE000001    Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker [PSP]    PS Vita, PSP®   19.99   Vollversion

Check if desired price has been met

The price is in local currency. As exit statuses render the outcome of the alert, you may send you e-mails or desktop notifications with && or ||. In this example, there is a string printed to the console.

psncli --id EP0101-ULES01372_00-GPCMETALGE000001 --store DE/de --price 15.00 &&
echo "Price matched, let's buy Metal Gear Solid PW"