Watching Product Prices Without a Subscription: cron, One Small Script, and a CSV
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Every price-tracker-as-a-service wants an account, has alert limits, and eventually asks for a subscription - to tell you that a number on a webpage went down. If you can run Python on your own machine, you do not need any of it. Here is the whole system: a script on a cron schedule that fetches the page, pulls the price out, appends a row to a CSV, and pings you on Telegram or email only when the price crosses your target. How it finds the price (3-tier) Your CSS selector - if you give it one, it wins. Best for sites with weird markup. og:price:amount meta tag - most modern storefronts (Shopi
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