Use Python to get alerted when an Amazon wishlist item drops in price

What it does

Scratching my own itch. I want an alert when there's been a price drop on an item on my Amazon wishlist. I couldn't find an easy way to get an email directly from Amazon (customer-focused my shiny metal arse) so I knocked something up in Python. This is heavily inspired by Leigh Dodds' Wishlist Monitor . Amazon don't offer an API for wishlists (innovative my shiny metal arse). So this uses Beautiful Soup to grab the data from the HTML. To be fair, there's also some microdata on the page, which makes things slightly easier. The code is available on github.com/edent/Amazon-Wishlist-Pricedrop-Alert - but here's a brief walkthrough of parsing and dealing with pagination: ⧉ Python 3 from bs4…from shkspr.mobi

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