AmazonScraper module

class AmazonScraper.AmazonScraper(url)

Bases: object

This is the Scraper for Amazon. Takes in product url as input upon object creation. Method ‘job’ prints progress while method ‘check_stock’ obtains stock info and a string indicating cost of the product.

Amazon pages can have stock info in different ways. Following are the possible cases, interpretations, and return values of each case.

Case	Interpretation	Scraper return value
In Stock	Product is in stock	In Stock
Only x left Order soon	Product is in stock	In Stock
Currently unavailable	Product is out of stock	Out of Stock
In stock soon	Product is out of stock	Out of Stock
No stock info or captcha page	Stock information not available	No Stock Info

check_stock(url)

Obtains stock information from the given url.

Parameters

url – URL of the product

Returns

a string indicating the stock information and a string indicating cost of the product

job()

Prints the progress, and delegates the task to ‘check_stock’.

Returns

a string indicating the stock information and a string indicating cost of the product