Big Data Things

Have you ever wanted something but couldn't afford it at the regular price? Or did you ever think that something was a good-to-have but not really worth at the regular price? Have you ended up checking Amazon every few days for a price drop on the item? Well, now you don't need to. You can build a very simple Python program that does this for you. That's what we are going to do today, in this post. We will build a very basic web crawler, we will scrape the price of the item from the item page on Amazon and we will compare whether the price has dropped, increased or remained the same. Prerequisites: You need to install a couple of things to get started. You will need Python. Once, you have installed Python, you need to install a couple of libraries. If you are using a Mac, you can get Python installed using Homebrew, >brew install python >brew install python@2 Once you have installed Python, you can use pip to install requests and bs4 . ...