Amazon product availability checker using Python - GeeksforGeeks

02 Nov, 2021
As we know Python is a multi-purpose language and widely used for scripting. Its usage is not just limited to solve complex calculations but also to automate daily life task. Let’s say we want to track any Amazon product availability and grab the deal when the product availability changes and inform the user of availability through email. It will be a great fun to write a Python script for this.Note: Install the required libraries (as per the code) before running the script. Also, note if the product is not available currently then no email will be sent to user. Asin Id should be provided by the user for the product he wants to keep track of. 
Working of each module used: -> requests: Used to make HTTP get and post requests -> time: Used to find current time, wait, sleep -> schedule: Used to schedule a function to run again after intervals. It is similar to “setInterval” functionality in JavaScript. -> smptlib: Used to send email using Python.
Below is the implementation of above project: 
Python3
# Python script for Amazon product availability checker# importing librariesfrom lxml import htmlimport requestsfrom time import sleepimport timeimport scheduleimport smtplib # Email id for who want to check availabilityreceiver_email_id = "EMAIL_ID_OF_USER"  def check(url):    headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.90 Safari/537.36'}         # adding headers to show that you are    # a browser who is sending GET request    page = requests.get(url, headers = headers)    for i in range(20):        # because continuous checks in        # milliseconds or few seconds        # blocks your request        sleep(3)                 # parsing the html content        doc = html.fromstring(page.content)                 # checking availability        XPATH_AVAILABILITY = '//div[@id ="availability"]//text()'        RAw_AVAILABILITY = doc.xpath(XPATH_AVAILABILITY)        AVAILABILITY = ''.join(RAw_AVAILABILITY).strip() if RAw_AVAILABILITY else None        return AVAILABILITY      def sendemail(ans, product):    GMAIL_USERNAME = "YOUR_GMAIL_ID"    GMAIL_PASSWORD = "YOUR_GMAIL_PASSWORD"         recipient = receiver_email_id    body_of_email = ans    email_subject = product + ' product availability'         # creates SMTP session    s = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)         # start TLS for security    s.starttls()         # Authentication    s.login(GMAIL_USERNAME, GMAIL_PASSWORD)         # message to be sent    headers = "\r\n".join(["from: " + GMAIL_USERNAME,                        "subject: " + email_subject,                        "to: " + recipient,                        "mime-version: 1.0",                        "content-type: text/html"])     content = headers + "\r\n\r\n" + body_of_email    s.sendmail(GMAIL_USERNAME, recipient, content)    s.quit()  def ReadAsin():    # Asin Id is the product Id which    # needs to be provided by the user    Asin = 'B077PWK5BT'    url = "http://www.amazon.in/dp/" + Asin    print ("Processing: "+url)    ans = check(url)    arr = [        'Only 1 left in stock.',        'Only 2 left in stock.',        'In stock.']    print(ans)    if ans in arr:        # sending email to user if        # in case product available        sendemail(ans, Asin) # scheduling same code to run multiple# times after every 1 minutedef job():    print("Tracking....")    ReadAsin() schedule.every(1).minutes.do(job) while True:         # running all pending tasks/jobs    schedule.run_pending()    time.sleep(1)
Output:  
Tracking....
Processing: http://www.amazon.in/dp/B077PWK5BT
Only 1 left in stock.
Tracking....
Processing: http://www.amazon.in/dp/B077PWK5BT
Only 1 left in stock.
Tracking....
Processing: http://www.amazon.in/dp/B077PWK5BT
Only 1 left in stock.
Note that the program might throw an error (Critical security alert/Sign-in attempt was blocked) while sending the mail to the user, which can be handled by modifying the security setting in the mail application you are using.  
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