I would like to be able to have a script that could run as a CRON job that would check the price of an item on a site like eBay or Amazon to keep a watch on it for fluctuations.
Does anyone have a suggestion as to how to implement something like that?
You tagged this with PHP so I thought wget. https://www.google.com/#q=wget+amazon+price+check in fact finds a prior with PHP and wget. Now you have the page and get to parse it out.
Thank you rproffitt for that very direct and precise answer.
That is why I like this forum. When someone asks a question the answers are generally very helpful.
That looks like exactly what I needed, and gives me a direction to go for finding the same type of information from other platforms.
I appreciate it
Douglas
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