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import requests
import smtplib
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
URL = 'your_url'
TARGET_PRICE = your_price (e.g. 10.0)
MAIL_ADDRESS = 'your.mail@gmail.com'
PASSWORD = 'generated_password'
HEADERS = {
'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.163 Safari/537.36'
}
def parse_price(price_text):
price_text = price_text.replace('€', '')
price_text = price_text.replace('EUR', '')
price_text = price_text.strip()
price_text = price_text.replace('.', '')
price_text = price_text.replace(',', '.')
return float(price_text)
def send_email(name, price):
server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
server.ehlo()
server.starttls()
server.ehlo()
server.login(MAIL_ADDRESS, PASSWORD)
subject=f"{name} price below {TARGET_PRICE} €"
body=f"The article {name} is available for {price} €. Check it here: {URL}"
message = f'Subject: {subject}\n\n{body}'
server.sendmail(MAIL_ADDRESS, MAIL_ADDRESS, message.encode('utf8'))
server.quit()
page = requests.get(URL, headers=HEADERS)
soup = BeautifulSoup(page.content, 'html5lib')
title_span = soup.find('span', id='productTitle')
name = ''
if title_span is not None:
name = title_span.get_text().strip()
price = 0.0
price_span = soup.find('span', id='priceblock_dealprice')
if price_span is None:
price_span = soup.find('span', id='priceblock_ourprice')
if price_span is None:
price_span = soup.find('span', class_=a-color-price')
if price_span is not None:
price = parse_price(price_span.get_text())
if price <= TARGET_PRICE:
send_email(name, price)
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