Automating Amazon Price Tracking with Python

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  • Are you a savvy shopper who is always on the lookout for the best deals on Amazon? Do you find yourself constantly checking the prices of your favorite products to see if they have gone down? If so, you might want to consider using Python to automate the process of tracking Amazon prices. In this post, we will show you how to use Python to scrape Amazon.com for product prices and automate the process of checking out.

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  • The first step in automating Amazon price tracking with Python is to scrape the product pages of Amazon.com for the desired product. To do this, you can use a web scraping library like BeautifulSoup or Scrapy. In the following example, we will use BeautifulSoup to scrape the product page for a MacBook Pro on Amazon.com:

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