Show HN: PriceProbe – zero-dependency competitor price tracker in Python

Category: cli-tool

Tags: price-tracking, scraping, self-hosted

Score: 4.3/10 (Innovation: 3, Technical: 4, Documentation: 5, Utility: 5)

PriceProbe is a lightweight, zero-dependency Python tool for tracking competitor prices and stock status by fetching product pages and generating HTML reports. Its simplicity and self-hosted nature offer a free alternative to expensive subscription services, though it relies on basic regex scraping which limits robustness.

Target audience: backend devs, e-commerce operators, data engineers

Repository: https://github.com/willylam2222-bot/priceprobe · Python · MIT

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