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fluidistic
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I have an Amazon account with a wishlist. The list contains a lots of (almost a hundred) textbooks. I find myself losing my time checking their prices several times a day, just in case a sudden drop in price appears. There are third party websites such as camelcamelcamel which can send you an email when such a price drop appears, however in my experience these websites have bugs and do not get the correct value of the items, many times. I cannot rely on these.
There are ways to scrap the list with a custom made program. Many of such programs already exist and are free on Github. However, so far I haven't found a single one that could deal with a private wishlist (as opposed to public), is working and up to date with how Amazon works. That is something I wish I could use. A few years ago, it was possible to rank the wishlist in terms of the items with the highest price drop in %, directly in Amazon website. But Amazon later removed this nice feature (I guess they lost money due to it?). I would run the script every 6 hours, more or less, in an automatic way and display the result in a terminal if and only if it is interesting enough.
There are ways to scrap the list with a custom made program. Many of such programs already exist and are free on Github. However, so far I haven't found a single one that could deal with a private wishlist (as opposed to public), is working and up to date with how Amazon works. That is something I wish I could use. A few years ago, it was possible to rank the wishlist in terms of the items with the highest price drop in %, directly in Amazon website. But Amazon later removed this nice feature (I guess they lost money due to it?). I would run the script every 6 hours, more or less, in an automatic way and display the result in a terminal if and only if it is interesting enough.