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Price Tracker

Overview

Price Tracker is a very simple tracker of Amazon product prices.

In a config (see request.example) add your AWS credentials, Amazon product ids that you want to track and your Gmail credentials.

This might eventually turn into a useful webapp or something. Knowing me, probably not. So use command line.

Sending g-emails with smtplib.

Python 2.7+
Redis server
redis-py
gdata python library
AWS account - access and secret key pair
Amazon Associates Account - Amazon associates tag
Amazon Simple Product API
Gmail account and password or application-specific password if you are using 2 factor authentication (and you should)
An empty spreadsheet in Google Drive titled "Amazon Price Tracker"

Clone this project
Install all the prerequisites
Rename request.example file to 'request'
Edit request file with your list of Amazon products and product IDs, your AWS credentials, Amazon associates tag, and Gmail address and password
Run price_tracker.py occasionally or set up a cron job to run it automatically for you
If using crobjob:

$ crontab -e
# This example will run the price tracker every hour
0 */1 * * * /absolute/path/to/price_tracker.py --file "/absolute/path/to/request"

Not in any particular order

accept args from the command line for the following options:
- ~~path to request file~~
- ~~clean up redis data~~
- first run
- no spreadsheets
- email only when price decreased
- clear all data from redis and/or gdrive
improvements to spreadsheet editing:
- instead of clearing out spreadsheet every time append date/price columns to the existing spreadsheet - gdata api limitation
- create spreadsheet instead relying on the user to do it - gdata api limitation
provide Vagrantfile/manifest for users who would prefer to run price_tracker from a VM

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