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I'd pay (once) for software that periodically ran on my computer, pinging a URL for a price, tracking it locally, and giving me an alert at a change threshold.
by xbryanx 11y ago
I'd pay (once) for software that periodically ran on my computer, pinging a URL for a price, tracking it locally, and giving me an alert at a change threshold.
- enjo 11y agohttps://keepa.com/ https://keepa.com/ basically does that, not locally and only for Amazon tho. It has saved my wife thousands of dollars on the various things she buys. Particularly the kind of seasonal stuff. We go to alot of music festivals and the fun costumes and fuzzy stuff she loves to wear fluctuates in price like crazy throughout the year. Keepa allows her to figure out when those fluctuations generally happen. They also remind her to set a price threshold based on historical data and then forget about it until it goes back down in price. Works great.
- chipperyman573 11y agoYou could probably make that overnight. Just send a cURL to the page and look for the text of the span with the ID "priceblock_ourprice". Then log that to a comma delimited text file or something.
- stevekemp 11y agoBut the real problem would be updating your code every time the appropriate website(s) changed their markup. In a hosted service that's easy; if you're selling something people download you'll have to ensure timely updates.
- chipperyman573 11y agoWhich is why, unfortunately, this product can't realistically be a one-time fee.