WebScrapper

This is a small handy python application that can be used to keep track over certain products and their price and notify you via email when the price are lowered to your satisfaction.

Installation

Use the package manager pip to install requried dependencies.

$ pip install requests bs4

Usage

You can get your user agent by searching 'My User-Agent' in google.

Send Mail

To send mail via gmail ID, you can either use GoogleLessSecure feature or set up a 2-step verification link. After you have set up the 2-step verification generate an app(Mail/Windwos10) password link which can be used to while sending the mail.

server.login('[email protected]', 'password you get from above step')
    subject = '[SBOT]Notification: Price down for your desiered product.'
    body = "Check the link, " + URL
    msg = f"Subject: {subject}\n\n{body}" 

Process Management

To set the program up so that you don't have to run it again and again you can add the following snippet to the code.

while True:
    check_price()
    time.sleep(60*60*12) 

This will run the check_price() function every 12 hrs.