Scraping E-commerce Flash Sales: Finding Deals Before They're Gone

Flash sales last minutes to hours. A scraper detecting them early gives you competitive advantage. Deal Detection import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup import time , hashlib from datetime import datetime class FlashSaleScraper : def __init__ ( self ): self . s = requests . Session () self . s . headers [ " User-Agent " ] = " Mozilla/5.0 " self . seen = set () def slickdeals ( self , min_score = 10 ): soup = BeautifulSoup ( self . s . get ( " https://slickdeals.net/deals/ " ). text , " html.parser " ) deals = [] for item in soup . select ( " [data-deal-id] " ): t = item . select_one ( " .itemTitle a " ) if not t : continue p = item . select_one ( " .itemPrice " ) sc = item . select_one ( " .dealScore " ) deal = { " title " : t . get_text ( strip = True ), " url " : " https://slickdeals.net " + t . get ( " href " , "" ), " price " : p . get_text ( strip = True ) if p else " N/A " , " score " : int ( sc . get_text ( strip = True ). replace ( " + " , "" )) if sc else 0 } if deal [