App that tracks prices on websites? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hello fellow self-hosters! I am looking for an app/tool/macro/etc that can screen-scrape or API ping various merchants to track prices on specific products. Think camelcamelcamel but for any merchant. I have to believe such a tool exists and I'm not the first person to think of it.

In an ideal world, I'd like it to be able to dump the data into a spreadsheet so that I can track/graph it. But that's not a requirement.

Does such a tool exist?

Thanks!

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[-] palitu@aussie.zone 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There is a Firefox adding that can load a page amd extract a div, and track it over time. But the browser needs to be open. It is called PageProbe

I used it to track the price of an item, looking for a sale.

edit - updated the name and added link

this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2024

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