🚀 TrackIt - Price Tracking Made Easy!

🔍 Overview

TrackIt is a smart system that monitors product prices across different platforms for now flipkart. Users can subscribe to products and receive real-time notifications 📢 when prices drop. Built using TypeScript, Node.js, and Kafka, TrackIt ensures scalability, efficiency, and timely updates ⏳.

✨ Features

• 🛒 Product Subscription: Easily add products to track their prices.
• 📩 Instant Notifications: Get alerts via Telegram when prices change.
• 🤖 Automated Price Tracking: The system scrapes product prices every hour.
• 🗄 Database Storage: Uses SQLite to store product info and price history.

🛠 Tech Stack

• 💻 Frontend: HTML,CSS, JavaScript
• ⚙️ Backend: Node.js, Express.js, SQLite
• 🕵️‍♂️ Scraper: Puppeteer
• 🕵️‍♂️ Tracking Job: Node-cron
• 🔗 Messaging: Kafka
• 🤖 Notifications: Telegram Bot API

🏗 Installation & Setup

✅ Prerequisites

• Node.js (v16+ recommended)
• Kafka
• SQLite

📌 Steps to Set Up

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/yourusername/trackit.git
   cd trackit

2. Install dependencies:

   npm install

3. Run kafka

     docker-compose up -d

4. Start the backend server:

   npm run server

5. Start the tracker job:

   npm run tracker

6. Start the frontend:

   cd frontend
   npm start

🚀 Usage

• Open http://localhost:3000 🌍 to access the UI.
• Add a product by entering its Flipkart URL 🔗.
• The tracker job will check for price changes hourly.
• Receive real-time alerts in your Telegram channel 📲.

🤝 Contributing

Want to make TrackIt even better? Feel free to submit issues and pull requests 🚀.

📜 License

This project is licensed under the me 📝.

Happy tracking! 🎯