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Building a Web Scraper to Track Product Prices and Send Alerts

Tutorial December 10, 2024
python

Use the smtplib library to send email notifications when the price drops below the threshold.

import smtplib

# Email configuration
EMAIL_ADDRESS = "your_email@example.com"
EMAIL_PASSWORD = "your_password"

def send_email_alert(product, price):
    subject = "Price Drop Alert!"
    body = f"The price of '{product}' has dropped to ${price}. Check it out here: {URL}"
    message = f"Subject: {subject}\n\n{body}"

    # Connect to the email server and send the email
    with smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com", 587) as server:
        server.starttls()
        server.login(EMAIL_ADDRESS, EMAIL_PASSWORD)
        server.sendmail(EMAIL_ADDRESS, EMAIL_ADDRESS, message)

    print("Email alert sent!")