pricey

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pricey

Pricey is a pet project to explain crawling concepts with a "real" usecase. It was born after discussing Black Friday with a group of friends. It's backed by the cool library colly.

Pricey is not ambitious. It must be useful for monitoring prices on e-commerces on the web.

Building

go build .

Usage

$ ./pricey --help
Usage of ./pricey:
  -currency string
    	the currency (US$ (US), R$ (BR)...
  -interval duration
    	the time interval for crawling (default 5s)
  -pattern string
    	the corresponding css rule <required>
  -target int
    	the desired price <required>
  -url string
    	the url to be crawled <required>

Limitations

There's a known limitation while the currency format. The target argument expects an int, so if you have a value like $1,499.00, simply pass 149900. You know, floats and money :P

The cli interface is kind of geeky, asking a few params. This could be improved via configuration and defaults.

Contributions

I try to implement only the minimal to be useful. If you want to leave a contribution, PRs are welcome. Try to be organized, even though the project doesn't have a guideline yet.

Be nice and help people! :P