A basic web app for users to check amazon.co.jp products. Users can add a product URL, desired price, and their email address. Upon email confirmation, the app will check the product price daily until it is at or below the user’s desired price. When the desired price is met, the app will send the user an email alert about the price, along with some extra information.
- clone the repo,
pipenv installorpip installin your terminal - create a
.envfile, see below for variable names and example - create a PostgreSQL database for the project
- enable SMTP mail and get the information for your mail server
- add variables to
.envfile - in python,
from app import dbthendb.create_all()to create the database python app.pyto start the web app- run
python price_track.pyto process the requests, or schedule it to run at an interval
APPDEBUGSTATE= //True or False, depending on local or hosted deployment
DBURI= //Postgres database URI
SMTP_SERVER= //mail server name
SMTP_PORT= //mail server port
EMAIL_ADDRESS= //mail server login
EMAIL_PASSWORD= //mail server password
ROOT_URL= //app deployment URL
APPDEBUGSTATE=True
DBURI=postgresql://postgres:mypass@localhost/simple-price-tracking
SMTP_SERVER=smtp.gmail.com
SMTP_PORT=587
[email protected]
EMAIL_PASSWORD=abcd1234
ROOT_URL=http://127.0.0.1:5000/
PythonscriptsPostgreSQLdatabaseFlaskweb frameworkSQLAlchemyquery builder for Flaskpsycopg2database access for Python scriptsBeautiful Soup4web scrapingsmtplibto send mail
Feel free to contact me by email, adam0tokyo at gmail for any questions or comments!