Hey. This is my third day of 7. This time I decided to get out of ReactJS and create something with Python. I thought about making a simple price-tracker with web scraping, but then I met this Selenium and decided to test create something with it. So maybe I didn't use it correctly, but it shows up, this is my first project.
I am using the very popular website in my country, for buying and selling used items. OLX. I open it with selenium firefox web driver, make the search and get the HTML information I need. I think maybe later I will take the selenium and leave it with web scraping, as I said, I did it just to test it.
For now the script is creating a new json file in /reports, containing the products found and the best product found.
$ git clone git@github.com:sammarxz/03-olx-price-tracker.git
$ cd 03-olx-price-tracker.git
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
edit the config.py with the name, category and region of product that you will want search and run the app.py script
You will need the geckodriver for this works. Download the latest version and install it in your PC.
$ wget https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.26.0/geckodriver-v0.26.0-linux32.tar.gz
$ tar -xvzf geckodriver*
$ sudo mv geckodriver /usr/local/bin/
- - Make the script interactive, asking the user what they would like to search for, which category and region
- - Add the tracker functionality really, because so far the script just scraps.
- - The tracker will run everyday in end of day and if the price expected by the user is equal to an product of the list, send an email to user.