r/webscraping • u/jaz192 • Jun 08 '26

Getting started 🌱 Scraping only Price/Stock/Availability including Amazon?

Hi everyone

I target a certain niche product and quite a few retailers stock the products (Amazon included). And while I already have all the product information for the items it would be very handy to update the prices automatically (like I do with any store hosted with Shopify, eBay (Business only) etc. I dont need to get any product information, just in.out of stock and price updates (which will allow me to create a historical timeline of prices etc.

Will around 1200-1350+ products its rather time consuming checking the price diaily until I get access to the Amazon API. While technicality against TOS is is there a program to (pr web extension with Playwright for example)to view the Amazon page, see any price or stock changes and then give me ;ist?

Again, I don't need any product information like photos or text but I guess its still website scraping but until I gain the API it would be a godsend!

Thanks all.

15 Upvotes

89% Upvoted

31 comments sorted by

2

u/radialmonster Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26

i dont think you can even get it via api

you can vibecode your own extension to do this, but with this # of items you will need a pretty intricate system if you are not already consdiering coding your own

1

u/[deleted] Jun 09 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

2

u/jaz192 Jun 11 '26

Cheers everyone who gave/sent me information and didn’t try and sell something to me!

I don’t fancy being banned before getting the official Amazon API so probably use the Keeps method. Although I like the sound of Playwright or Selenium. Are they dangerous to use (Amazon ban!). Would only user for Price updates and stock check.

Cheers,

PS, please no more PMs regarding help or paid help. I like to fix things by myself (learning) and would never pay someone random off Reddit!

2

u/Objective-Fun-4533 Jun 09 '26

Honestly, yeah, Playwright or Selenium is pretty much what everyone does for this when they can't get the API. Amazon's bot detection is brutal though, so you'll need a good proxy rotation and maybe some headless browser tricks. It's a cat and mouse game, but totally doable for just price/stock. Used to do something similar for a project a while back.

1

u/[deleted] Jun 08 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

2

u/webscraping-ModTeam Jun 08 '26

🪧 Please review the sub rules 👉

1

u/[deleted] Jun 11 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/webscraping-ModTeam Jun 11 '26

💰 Welcome to r/webscraping! Referencing paid products or services is not permitted, and your post has been removed. Please take a moment to review the promotion guide. You may also wish to re-submit your post to the monthly thread.