BestBuy Price Notifier

Python3 script to check the price of a BestBuy product and send an email if it has a sale.

Usage

1. Install dependencies (pip install -r requirements.txt)
2. Obtain an API key at BestBuy Developer. Note: BestBuy Developer will not grant API keys to users with email addresses from free services like Gmail or Yahoo. You will have to use an email address on a custom domain, such as one from work or school.
3. Edit script with API key, product details, and SMTP details.
4. Test SMTP email send by manually setting the message variable to a non-empty string (e.g "Test email message") and running the script. After verifying that SMTP email send works, undo changes to the message variable.
5. Periodically run the script. Example of crontab entry to run every 20 minutes and log to a file:

*/20 * * * * /usr/bin/python3 /home/user/bestbuy/main.py >> /home/user/bestbuy/cron.log 2>&1

Sample Email

Known Issues

• If ran periodically, multiple emails will be sent for a sale as the script does not remember if it has sent an email already for a sale.