This project is designed to scrape retail sites to track price changes and notify users of top deals. Users can also add individual items to a watchlist and receive notifications when their custom price target is met.
- 📦 Scrape retail websites for price tracking using:
- Selenium for dynamic content scraping.
- Requests for lightweight HTTP requests.
- 🛒 Track item price history to analyze trends over time.
- 🗄️ Store price data using SQLAlchemy and a relational database.
- 📊 Graph price history over time (future enhancement, inspired by CamelCamelCamel).
- 🚀 FastAPI powers the backend to handle asynchronous requests efficiently.
- 🔄 Expose services via API for integration with front-end applications.
- 📧 Email notifications for top deals and recent price drops.
- 📱 Text alerts when a watchlisted item meets a user-defined price point.
- 📊 Interactive dashboards built with Streamlit for data visualization.
- 📈 Advanced analytics to help users decide the best time to buy items.
