Package: psnprices
Command line tool for alerting price drops in the Sony Entertainment
Network aka PlayStation NetworkDescriptionThe Sony Entertainment Network (SEN) uses CIDs to identify items in it’s
catalogue. In order to alert you on the desired price of an SEN you need
the CID. Use your Browser (cid GET parameter in URL) or this script
(–search) to retrieve the CID.In order to check the price of an item. You need a store identifier.
These store identifiers are known to work:DE/de (Germany)GB/en (Great Britain)US/en (United States)SE/en (Sweden)JP/jp (Japan)Prices are always in the local currency. Therefore it is € for DE/de and
£ for GB/en. Additionaly, prices are that for PlayStation Plus users.InstallationUse PyPI to installpsnpricespip install psnpricesThis will install the Python modules and also the following command line
toolspsncli
psnmailalert
psndealsmailalertUsageMail alerting for single alerts you define yourselfJust runpsnmailalertfor mail alerting. See example below. Alerts
are set in thealerts.csvfile. If no store is set. The german /
european store is used as a default.Command line interfaceusage: psncli [-h] [--id ID] [--container CONTAINER] [--store STORE]
                 [--price PRICE] [--query QUERY]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --id ID, -i ID        CID of game to check
  --container CONTAINER, -c CONTAINER
                        Container to list
  --store STORE, -s STORE
                        regional PSN store to check. Default: 'DE/de'
  --price PRICE, -p PRICE
                        desired price of game
  --query QUERY, -q QUERY
                        Name of item to search forRetrieving UTF-8 encoded output on terminalsYou may have to tell Python that your terminal is capable of dealing
with UTF-8 outputs. Some PSN items are annotated with trademark,
copyright or foreign language specific symbols. To do so setexportPYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8in your terminal window.Mail alerting for collections of price reductionsThe PlayStation Network creates collections for price reductions. Runpython psndealsmailalert.pyfor watching those collections and be
alerted if there are new reductions. Alerts for collections are set in
thealert_deal_containers.csvfile.ExampleYou may run this script with the following command line variants:Mail alerting - Get a mail when alerts have been metWithpsnmailalertyou may set alerts for price drops in thealerts.csvfile. The first value is the CID for the item, the second
is the price to be matched in order to alert you by mail, and the second
value is the store to search in. You may mix stores in thealerts.csv. After a price has been matched, the alert is removed
fromalerts.csv. You will not get any further alerts for that item.P0001-NPEJ00305_00-B000000000001030,19.00,DE/de
P0001-NPEJ00305_00-B000000000001030,19.00,DE/de
EP0102-CUSA02521_00-MEGAMANLEGACY000,7.00
UP0102-CUSA02516_00-MEGAMANLEGACY000,7.00,US/en
P0101-ULES01372_00-GPCMETALGE000001,10.00,DE/deIf the store value is left blank, the script tries to extract the store
from the beginning character of the CID.In order to receive mails you have to set your account settings in the
filemailconfig.json. Seemailconfig.json_examplefor an example
config.To runpsnmailalert, just type:/psnmailalertExample mailMail with alertsSearching for the CID of an itemDefine the name of a game and the store.psncli --query "metal gear solid peace walker psp" --store DE/deYou will get a result containing one to many search results with the
CID. The first output of each search line is the CID, the second the
name, the third the supported systems and the last is a description of
the item type in the local store language. It is “Vollversion” here
which means “full version” in German.EP0101-ULES01372_00-GPCMETALGE000001    Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker [PSP]    PS Vita, PSP®   19.99   VollversionCheck if desired price has been metThe price is in local currency. As exit statuses render the outcome of
the alert, you may send you e-mails or desktop notifications with&&or||. In this example, there is a string printed to the console.psncli --id EP0101-ULES01372_00-GPCMETALGE000001 --store DE/de --price 15.00 &&
echo "Price matched, let's buy Metal Gear Solid PW"DisclaimerThis script is not associated with Sony, Sony PlayStation, the
PlayStation Network in any kind. It consumes an public interface that is
publicly advertised to the browser to list store contents.