This project is no longer maintained :-( HTML grep/sed magic last seen working: 2013-04-10.

PLAYCOM-WATCHER

Monitor prices on Play.com.

Emails a notification if a given product's price drops below a set limit.

Instructions

1. Setup mail.
2. Put your URLs and price limits of interesting products to playcom.list.
3. Change the value of YOUR_EMAIL variable in playcom-watcher to your email address.
4. Run playcom-watcher.

Running playcom-watcher regularly

Use cron or launchd.

Linux / cron

1. crontab -e.
2. Add line: @hourly ~/bin/playcom-funtimes/playcom-watcher.
3. Now playcom-watcher runs hourly.

Mac OS X / launchd

1. Copy fi.viiksipojat.playcom-watcher.plist into ~/Library/LaunchAgents/.
2. Modify ProgramArguments path in plist to point where you installed playcom-watcher. Note that you can't use ~.
3. Add to launchd: launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/fi.viiksipojat.playcom-watcher.plist (or reboot).
4. Now playcom-watcher runs hourly. Start manually anytime: launchctl start fi.viiksipojat.playcom-watcher.

Inspiration

This project borrows heavily from muumi-dl by the ever so great SAMPUMON!