Easy way to frequently check if a ASIN on amazon can be ordered and send a message to a telegram channel.
git clone git@github.com:btcorgtfo/asinlookup.git
pip install -r requirements.txt
You can try to scrape amazon by yourself or use a service. scraperapi will be used in this example, where you can have 1000 api calls per month for free or subscribe to a small plan on a monthly basis.
So go to this page, get the free account and copy your access token from there.
If you are interested in a telegram bot which can send a message to a group chat (maybe as update if a product turns available) you can get more information about bots here. A token is needed to configure the SimpleTelegramBot.
Once you have a bot with a token you need to add him to the group chat and retrieve the corrresponding chat_id (tutorial).
from models import AmazonSearcher, check_html_for_str, SimpleTelegramBot
api_key = 'your-api-key-nobody-else-knows-for-the-scraperapi'
marketplace = 'US'
asin = 'B07VGRJDFY'
searcher = AmazonSearcher(marketplace=marketplace,
api_key=api_key)
result = searcher.get_product_page(asin=asin)
result will contain the product detail page in plain html, so you have to decide yourself for what to look for. You can
use the check_html_for_str(html=, search_str=) function to match to a specific string, e.g. 'product not available'.
if check_html_for_str(html=result, search_str='not available'):
message = f"product ({asin}) not available."
else:
message = "product ({asin}) is available."
print(message)
If you want to use the chat bot, you can use it via
bot = SimpleTelegramBot(token='your-chatbot-token',
chat_id='chat_id-where-the-bot-should-send-message-to')
and drop a message to the chat with bot.send_text('A message.')