@fabio/amazon-alert

Amazon price drop alert app!

Motivation

I have tried two price tracking services in the past but they are just too slow and have not tracked the products in my wish list. As a consequence, I ended up missing deals.

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. This app will make daily, hourly and even half-hourly checks to see if the price has dropped. Do you want to check every 15 minutes or less? Ask for it here.

When a price of a product at Amazon has dropped to your price or under, this app will play an audio alert and a Chrome window will open at Amazon.com with the product page for you to make the purchase. Just leave the app running and rest assured, you won't miss the next deal.

Tested on MacOS Terminals (it runs via command-line). Not tested on Windows yet.

Run as stand-alone executable

Download the binary in the dist folder and execute. (under development)

Run in Node

Follow the 3 steps below:

1. Installing Node

This app runs on Node. To install Node, go to https://nodejs.org/en download and install version LTS.

Make sure Node is installed by running it on Terminal:

node --version

2. Setup

Then install this app by running:

npm install --global @fab1o/amazon-alert

If you get an error, try running it with Admin rights:

sudo npm install --global @fab1o/amazon-alert

Type your computer login password to allow the app to be installed.

3. Running the App

Type on Terminal:

amazon-alert

Installing Chrome

Chrome is a soft requirement. It will work without it but it's better to have it.

Complete Usage Guide

amazon-alert [-u product_url] [-f frequency] [-p price] [--mute]

Those are all optional parameters.

Where:

• -u, --url Product url, i.e: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0812JPZFT
• -f, --frequency Frequency to run price checker, options are: Daily, Hourly, Half-Hourly
• -p, --price Price you want to be alerted
• -m, --mute No audio alert

Examples

Running the app

amazon-alert

The app will ask you to select a product from a list.

Running the app with a product url

Go to Amazon.com to copy and paste the url.

amazon-alert --url https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0812JPZFT

Running the app daily

amazon-alert --url https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0812JPZFT --frequency Daily

Help

amazon-alert --help

or ask a question here.