Quiche Saver

Quiche Saver (queish, cash... get it?) is a Telegram bot that monitors products for you. It checks when a product is available and when its price is lower than a maximum value provided. It uses Beautiful Soup to parse HTMLs and the Python Telegram Bot to work.

Yes, there are some price monitors out there, but my motivation was exactly because a lot of those price monitors are unrealiable. I recommend using this bot when there's a product out there that you really want and don't want to miss any possible updates.

Installation

First, you need to create a bot with the BotFather. After setting up a name and an username, he will give you a token. You must create the file quichesaver/conf/.env and write:

TELEGRAM_TOKEN=<YOUR_TOKEN_HERE>

Next, install the Gecko Driver necessary for Selenium:

# Linux
sudo apt-get install geckodriver

# MacOS
brew install geckodriver

Finally, install the necessary requirements with pip install -r requirements.txt (preferably on a virtual environment) and run python -m quichesaver.quichesaver.

Important considerations

If you want to change the delay between checks, you can change the MONITOR_INTERVAL constant on quichesaver/quichesaver.py. In the same file, there's a constant called ITEM_INTERVAL; this is the delay between individual checks (per product). This is an important constant because some websites can block you if you make too many requests in a short period of time.

Also, I must say that this is minimal working version. Only two stores are implemented (for now), and both are brazilian. By simply adding a new parser logic to quichesaver/parsers.py, you can add that store to your version.

Current stores supported:

• Boa Dica
• Magazine Luiza
• Submarino
• Americanas
• Shoptime
• Casas Bahia
• Extra
• Ponto Frio
• Kabum
• Fast Shop
• Amazon