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| ====== Amazon Product Page Checker ====== | ====== Amazon Product Page Checker ====== | ||
| - | Goal: Automatically check an Amazon product page for certain information. (Availability, | ||
| - | Prerequisite: | + | **General Information** |
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| - | ==== Prep Work: Web Browser ==== | + | Automatically check an Amazon product page for certain information. (Availability, |
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| + | **Checklist** | ||
| + | * Distro(s): Any | ||
| + | * Other: You can send e-mail from the command line: [[ Send Email via Gmail SMTP Cmd Line ]] | ||
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| + | ---- | ||
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| + | ===== Prep Work: Web Browser | ||
| 1) In a web browser, visit the Amazon.com product page you want to auto check and save the URL. | 1) In a web browser, visit the Amazon.com product page you want to auto check and save the URL. | ||
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| * Select the string to the right of " | * Select the string to the right of " | ||
| - | ==== Testing Curl and Grep ==== | + | ---- |
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| + | ===== Testing Curl and Grep ===== | ||
| 1) Using the collected product page URL and user agent string, test a curl against the page. | 1) Using the collected product page URL and user agent string, test a curl against the page. | ||
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| * Using this logic, if the item became available to buy, that statement would not return any result. | * Using this logic, if the item became available to buy, that statement would not return any result. | ||
| - | ==== The Script ==== | + | ---- |
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| + | ===== The Script | ||
| Putting the above curl statement into a working script looks like this: | Putting the above curl statement into a working script looks like this: | ||
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| * Do nothing else if the string is still there. | * Do nothing else if the string is still there. | ||
| - | ==== Auto Check it with Cron ==== | + | ---- |
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| + | ===== Auto Check it with Cron ===== | ||
| Don't forget create the cron entry to have the script execute every 15 mins or so. | Don't forget create the cron entry to have the script execute every 15 mins or so. | ||
