From d963b3c805cc79c6dec18ffdf0bfbca8ef8d60c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: AdvaitDhingra Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2021 11:19:39 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Added price checker App --- Projects/1-Beginner/Amazon-Price-Alert.md | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Projects/1-Beginner/Amazon-Price-Alert.md diff --git a/Projects/1-Beginner/Amazon-Price-Alert.md b/Projects/1-Beginner/Amazon-Price-Alert.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..11083d32 --- /dev/null +++ b/Projects/1-Beginner/Amazon-Price-Alert.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +# Amazon Price Alerter + +**Tier:** 1-Beginner + +This simple yet useful app will check the price of a product on Amazon, check if it is under a given budget and send you an email if that is the case. It is a good entry into web scraping and can be modified to check multiple products or perform more complex comparisons. The program is a simple <100 line Python script. + +## User Stories + +- [ ] User can enter the link of the desired product +- [ ] User can enter a gmail app-password to automate emails +- [ ] User can make the Python program run on startup +- [ ] User can wait for the email and purchase the desired product at the desired price + +## Useful links and resources + +- [BeautifulSoup to fetch the price](https://beautiful-soup-4.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) +- [SMTPLib to send the email](https://docs.python.org/3/library/smtplib.html) + +## Example projects + +- [An example of this project made by me](https://github.com/AdvaitDhingra/python_projects/blob/master/get_price.py)