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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! :)



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_...


Official API, no scraping.


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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