I just came across your awesome script and wanted to use it for myself.
I experienced some issues while setting it up, so I fixed them.
First, I couldn't install lxml==3.5.0 in a python -m venv, so I just tried with the newest version and it seemed to work.
Also, Amazon responded with a captcha, telling me that automated scraping isn't cool. But they dropped a hint that they missed being able to set cookies, so I just used a requests.Session instead of a simple get(). That solved the problem and now I can get alerts!
Oh, and while I was at it, I updated the user-agent, too. Just in case. :)
eyalzek
commented
5 years ago
Hey there,
I just came across your awesome script and wanted to use it for myself.
I experienced some issues while setting it up, so I fixed them.
First, I couldn't install
lxml==3.5.0in apython -m venv, so I just tried with the newest version and it seemed to work.Also, Amazon responded with a captcha, telling me that automated scraping isn't cool. But they dropped a hint that they missed being able to set cookies, so I just used a
requests.Sessioninstead of a simpleget(). That solved the problem and now I can get alerts!Oh, and while I was at it, I updated the user-agent, too. Just in case. :)