I automated competitor price tracking with Python (saved 4 hours per week)

I automated competitor price tracking with Python (saved 4 hours per week) Was spending every Monday morning checking 23 competitor product pages. Copy URL, open tab, scroll to price, write it down. Repeat. 3 hours 47 minutes gone on average. Decided to automate it. The manual process was killing me Running a small e-commerce thing on the side. Needed to stay competitive on pricing. But manually checking prices across Amazon, eBay, and niche sites? Tedious as hell. Spreadsheet had columns for: Product name Competitor URL Current price Last updated Every. Single. Week. Manually. First attempt: just scrape it Thought I'd write a quick script. Grab HTML, parse price, done. import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup url = " https://example.com/product/123 " response = requests . get ( url ) soup = BeautifulSoup ( response . text , ' html.parser ' ) price = soup . find ( ' span ' , class_ = ' price ' ). text Worked for maybe 3 sites. Then: Amazon blocked me (User-Agent issue) JavaScript