discount notifier

a python script to produce desktop notifications when there is a discount in products i like from a shoes shop, using notify2, requests_html and beautifulSoup4

usage

1. install python3.6 or later
2. pip3 install -r requirements.txt
3. add the links of the item you want to be notified for in wishlist.txt (tap enter after each link)
4. python3 notifier.py

how it works

this e-shop uses a div element with a special class name to display the new price after discount of a product, so i used requests_html & bs4 libraries to get the HTML text and check if there is a div that contains a special price.

use on other e-shops

• go to your preferred e-eshop, find a product that already has a discount and right click on the new price.
• select inspect or inspect element(Firefox)
• find the html element type and class or id name and copy them.
• change line 18 of notifier.py to match the element type and name.

For example:

now line 18 should be: special_price = html.findAll("div", {"class": "pdpPrice"})

• replace links on wishlist.txt with your preferred items links.