What is RedLego?

It's been very difficult to compare the price of Adobe software from territory to territory in a meaningful way. So here's RedLego, a Python script that visits all the online stores, checks the prices, converts them to $US at the current exchange rate and puts them all in a handy json file for you to access.

There are two repositories: JSON price data and the scraper.

JSON Price Data

http://github.com/redlego/data/

You can access the raw JSON file at:

http://github.com/redlego/data/raw/master/prices.json

Scraper

http://github.com/redlego/scraper/

To install the scraper you will need:

• pip
• virtualenv
• virtualenvwrapper
• An API key from Exchange Rate API (free).

To install:

git clone http://github.com/redlego/scraper.git
cd scraper
mkvirtualenv scraper
pip install -E scraper -r requirements.txt

Put your Exchange Rate API key in a file called currency_api_key.

Run python redlego.py

Discussion

You can find a long-running discussion of Adobe's international pricing here: Why are UK prices nearly double US prices?.