eBay-price-tracker

Takes list of eBay URLs and tracks them for new products, new deals and sends an email when new product comes below a certain criteria
This is a side project.
It is not production ready code

Why?

eBay does have similar feature where you can get notfied by email for new products but this email tends to be on daily basis
In the mean time a lot of products can come online and be sold long before the daily email is sent to your email

The script does not use any eBay API
You do not need any eBay account for this to work

Email will only be send if it is a new product listed
In the email - it sends description as well so everything remains inside your inbox for your convinience

Step 1 - Setting up config.json

Make sure config.json is populated correctly.

{
	"urlsToTrack":  [{
		"url":  "",
		"belowWhatPrice":  0,
		"lastListedItem":  {
			"title":  "",
			"newListing":  true,
			"price":  0,
			"url":  "",
			"fastNfree":  false,
			"postage":  "0",
			"bestOffer":  false
		}
	}],
	"howOftenInMins":  10,
	"chrome":  {
		"headless":  true,
		"x":  1400,
		"y":  1000,
		"devtools":  false
	},
	"email":  {
		"readme":  "You will need to enable LESS SECURE APPS from Google setting. Essential it is!",
		"sendEmailTo":  "YOUR EMAIL",
		"gmail":  {
			"username":  "YOUR EMAIL",
			"password":  "YOUR EMAIL PASSWORD"
		}
	}
}

url needs to be complete URL and it needs to be sorted by Newly Listed. This is an example of a complete URL
belowWhatPrice - this feature has not been developed yet!
howOftenInMins - how often basically it should look for the newly listen items. Just remember: It needs to be in minutes!
chorme.headless - if you want to see the LIVE action of how it is done
email.sendEmailTo - This is the email to which the email will be sent to containing new item

Word of Caution!

You need to enable Google's LESS SECURE Apps settings otherwise email.gmail.username and email.gmail.password will not work correctly. Mainly because of self signed certificate - I believe this will not be an issue on a real server!

Step 2

run node index.js and follow the on-screen instructions Enjoy!

Bugs

Let me know!