📉 Amazon Price Tracker Bot

A Python bot that automatically checks Amazon product prices and sends an email alert when the price drops below your defined target. Tracks multiple products and runs headlessly using Selenium + BeautifulSoup.

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🛠 Features

• ✅ Tracks multiple Amazon products via a products.json file
• ✅ Sends email alerts (Outlook or Gmail) when price drops
• ✅ Headless Chrome browser for fast scraping
• ✅ Clean code structure (modular Python files)
• ✅ Debug logs and fallback HTML dump when blocked

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🧪 Example Usage

python main.py

🗂 Project Structure

amazon-price-tracker/
├── main.py                 # Entry point
├── config.py               # Email receiver, constants
├── products.json           # List of products to track
├── browser.py              # Headless Chrome setup
├── email_utils.py          # Outlook or Gmail email sender
├── price_checker.py        # Scraper & logic
├── utils.py                # Helpers (title/price extractors)
├── requirements.txt        # Pip dependencies
├── .env                    # (Optional) Secrets (email user/pass)
└── README.md               # You're reading it!

🔧 Configuration

products.json

[
  {
    "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CL12QNNK",
    "target_price": 70.00
  },
  {
    "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FC5L3RG",
    "target_price": 89.00
  }
]

.env (Optional)

Create a .env file in the project root with:

[email protected]
EMAIL_PASS=your_app_password

If using Gmail: generate an App Password If using Outlook: OAuth2 setup is required (see documentation)

📦 Installation

git clone https://github.com/your-username/amazon-price-tracker.git
cd amazon-price-tracker
pip install -r requirements.txt

💌 Email Setup

Gmail (easiest)

• Enable 2FA
• Create an App Password
• Paste it into your .env

Outlook

• Outlook no longer supports basic auth
• You must register an Azure app, use OAuth2, and request an SMTP access token

🧱 Dependencies

selenium
webdriver-manager
beautifulsoup4
requests
requests-oauthlib  # Only needed for Outlook OAuth2
python-dotenv      # Optional, for reading .env

Install with:

pip install -r requirements.txt