pilot-fish

A Node.js command line utility to check the prices of PC games on various sites

Installation

$ npm install -g pilot-fish

Usage

The program is called using the pf command with the following structure:

$ pf [options] <title> [limit]

The options available are:

    -h, --help     output usage information
    -V, --version  output the version number
    -b, --best     only display the best price for each title; if multiple stores have the item for the same price, only the first entry processed will be displayed
    -s, --sale     only display items that are on sale

title represents a string that will be passed as the search query to each webpage.

The limit is the number of results you want to see from each store; The default is 1.

If the game you're looking for doesn't appear in the results, try making the title more specific and increasing the limit.

Examples

$ pf skyrim

#=> The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: $19.99 from steam
#=> The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim®: $19.99 from greenmangaming.com
#=> The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: $19.99 from amazon.com

Note that gog.com does not carry AAA titles (with a few exceptions) and may not return a result.

$ pf -s 'dark souls' 4

#=> Dark Souls II: $49.99  $22.99 from greenmangaming.com

When a game is on sale, the normal price will be displayed first in gray, followed by the current sale price in green.

Release History

• 2016-04-18 v1.1.2 Bug fixes.
• 2016-03-28 v1.0.2 Initial release.

Contributing

This project is licensed under the MIT License. If you contribute code to this project, you are implicitly allowing that code to be published under the MIT License.

License

Copyright (c) 2016 Jeff Minnear
Licensed under the MIT license.