Show HN: Amazon Price Monitor (weekend project)

Re:Show HN: Amazon Price Monitor (weekend project) by BigBalli on Sunday March 05, 2017 @04:36PM (#13798839)

Hi everyone, this is a quick project I wanted to share. Made it for myself but then tweaked it a bit so other could use it too.

Pretty simple goal: amazon price is checked regularly and you receive an email when it is below whatever you set the trigger.

Obviously there are many additions I have in mind but will only put more time if people want me to. Works fine as-is for me.

Let me know what you think or if you break it! :)

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Re:Show HN: Amazon Price Monitor (weekend project) by jasode on Sunday March 05, 2017 @06:49PM (#13799650)

Are you web scraping the html or are you using Amazon's API[1] with an AWS developer access key?

[1] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSECommerceService/latest/DG/EX_...

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Re:Show HN: Amazon Price Monitor (weekend project) by BigBalli on Sunday March 05, 2017 @08:04PM (#13799985)

Official API, no scraping.

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Re:Show HN: Amazon Price Monitor (weekend project) by jazoom on Monday March 06, 2017 @01:18AM (#13801010)

Don't you need to be an affiliate bringing them a decent amount of sales before you get access to that. Usually there is a rate limit that makes it impossible to keep up with all their prices. How did you get around that?

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