tweakers-pricewatch 0.1.0

Unofficial Python client for Tweakers.net Pricewatch — search products, browse categories, compare shop prices, and track price history.

tweakers-pricewatch

Unofficial Python client for Tweakers.net Pricewatch — the biggest price comparison site in the Netherlands.

Lets you search products, browse categories, pull current shop prices, and grab full price history (years of daily min/avg data). All from reverse-engineered endpoints, no API key needed.

Install

Just requests as a dependency. Copy tweakers.py + categories.json into your project, or:

pip install requests

Quick start

from tweakers import TweakersClient

client = TweakersClient()

Search for a product

results = client.search("DDR5 6000")
for r in results:
    print(f"[{r.product_id}] {r.name} — {r.url}")

Or grab just the first match:

r = client.search_one("F4-3600C16D-32GTZN")
if r:
    print(f"{r.name} [{r.product_id}]")

Browse a category

List all products in a category with pagination and sorting — 40 items per page:

page = client.browse_category("smartphones", sort="prijs", sort_dir="asc")

print(f"{page.total_count} products, page {page.page}/{page.total_pages}")
for item in page.items[:5]:
    print(f"  {item.name} — EUR {item.price} ({item.shop_count} shops)")

Auto-paginate through all results with browse_all():

for item in client.browse_all("interne-ssds"):
    print(f"{item.name}: EUR {item.price}")

Limit to the first N pages:

for item in client.browse_all("videokaarten", max_pages=3):
    print(f"{item.name}: EUR {item.price}")

Sort by "prijs" (price), "popularity", or "score" (rating). See CATEGORIES.md for all 243 available category slugs.

Look up categories

from tweakers import get_categories, category_id

cats = get_categories()            # {slug: {id, name}, ...}
cid = category_id("videokaarten")  # -> 49

Price history

Daily min and average prices going back years:

history = client.get_price_history(2064068)

print(f"{len(history.prices)} days of data")
print(f"Lowest ever: EUR {history.lowest_ever} ({history.lowest_ever_date})")
print(f"Last known:  EUR {history.last_price} ({history.last_price_date})")

for p in history.prices[-5:]:
    print(f"  {p.date}  min=EUR {p.min_price}  avg=EUR {p.avg_price}")

Belgium prices too:

history_be = client.get_price_history(2064068, country="be")

Product info

Structured data from JSON-LD:

info = client.get_product_info(2064068)
print(f"{info.brand} {info.name}")
print(f"MPN: {info.mpn}")        # ['KF560C30BBEK2-32']
print(f"EAN: {info.gtin}")        # ['0740617342994']
print(f"EUR {info.low_price} - {info.high_price} ({info.offer_count} shops)")

Current shop prices

All offers:

offers = client.get_current_prices(2064068)
for o in offers:
    print(f"  {o.shop_name}: EUR {o.price}")

Or just the cheapest:

cheapest = client.get_cheapest_offer(2064068)
if cheapest:
    print(f"EUR {cheapest.price} at {cheapest.shop_name}")

Combo: info + prices in one request

info, offers = client.get_product_details(2064068)

Extract product ID from a URL

pid = TweakersClient.product_id_from_url(
    "https://tweakers.net/pricewatch/2064068/kingston-fury-beast-kf560c30bbek2-32.html"
)
# -> 2064068

How it works

No official API exists. This uses reverse-engineered endpoints:

Endpoint	Auth	Returns
/ajax/zoeken/pricewatch/?keyword=...	None	Search results (JSON)
/{category}/vergelijken/?page=...	Session cookies	Category listing with pagination (HTML)
/ajax/price_chart/{id}/{country}/	None	Full price history (JSON)
/pricewatch/{id}/	Session cookies	Product page with JSON-LD + shop listings (HTML)

The search and price history endpoints need zero authentication — they just work. Product and category pages need a session cookie which the client obtains automatically on init by following Tweakers' DPG Media consent redirect.

Category IDs are stored in categories.json (243 categories). To refresh:

python scripts/update_categories.py

Limitations

• Search returns ~8 results max (it's the autocomplete/suggest endpoint, not full search — the real search page has reCAPTCHA). Use browse_category() to list products by category instead.
• Category browsing and shop offer parsing use regex on HTML, so they may break if Tweakers redesigns the page
• Price history only covers NL and BE
• Be nice with request frequency — there's no rate limiting implemented, so add your own delays if you're hitting it in a loop

License

MIT