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malte311/amazon-price-tracker

By malte311

•Updated about 6 years ago

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⁠Amazon-Price-Tracker

A simple tool to track prices on amazon.de.

Note: Other amazon sites, such as amazon.com, wont work. If you want to track prices on other amazon websites different from amazon.de, you have to adjust the /py-code/scraper.py file. In the check_price() function, exchange the id for the title element as well as the class for the price element with the correct value for that other website. Moreover, the hardcoded strings inside the if statements as well as the currency sign have to be adjusted, too.

Also remember that you should not make this service publicly available on your server because users can type in arbitrary inputs which are not checked properly (which can be very dangerous).

⁠Installation (via Docker)

  1. Download this repository:

git clone [email protected]:Malte311/Amazon-Price-Tracker.git
  1. Adjust the docker-compose.yml file. Specify the correct server url and port. If you want to get notifications via email, you need a gmail account. Set the MAIL_USER variable to the sender email (has to be a gmail account) and MAIL_PW to the corresponding app password (not the "normal" password!). The receiving email address can use any email provider.

version: "2"

services:
  web:
    image: malte311/amazon-price-tracker:latest
    container_name: amazon-scraper
    ports:
      - "127.0.0.1:8080:80"
    volumes:
      - ./data/:/php-code/data/
    restart: always
    environment:
      - SERVERURL=https://example.com/amazon-scraper
      - [email protected]
      - MAIL_PW=password
      - [email protected]
  1. Get the newest Docker image and start a Docker container (inside of the project folder):

docker-compose pull
docker-compose up -d
  1. Install a cronjob to run the scraper periodically.

chmod +x cron.sh
crontab -e -u root

A cronjob every 30 minutes could look like this:


*/30 * * * * /bin/sh /var/docker-compose/amazon-scraper/cron.sh

Note that the scraper has a session limit of 5 connections per session in order to avoid too many requests at the same time. This limit can be changed by adjusting the parameter given to scraper.py in the file cron.sh.

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