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Checks the price threshold of the books in public Amazon wishlists and sends you an email.

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amzn-wishlist-price-check

Check the prices of books on an Amazon public wishlist.

Why I built this tool

Problem

You want to know when you favorite books are on sale to get the best deal. The problem is Amazon doesn't always tell you when a book goes on sale for one or two days leaving you to miss out on a great deal.

Solution

If you put all your books in a public whish list we can parse the list and see the prices. When we do this two to four times a day you will be able to tell when books go on sale. This makes it easy to get the best deal on your favorite books.

NOTE: All links and URLs use smile.amazon.com

Requirements

  1. The wishlist must be PUBILC

Tunables

  1. You can cover multiple wishlists and get a composite result back. We take the wishlist id and use that to fetch the list. See the example below on how to find the wish list id. Amazon URL: https://smile.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3GMM56QSK63GT Wishlist Id: 3GMM56QSK63GT
  2. You can set the max price you want to pay for any given book. See Price for details

Price

The max price comparison uses the whole dollar amount to avoid extra conversion and rounding with cents.

Example: Actual book price: $2.99 Max Price value: 2

The above example will return any book that is $2.99 or lower.

Output

The out is an HTML formatted string meant to be placed in an email.

<b>Name:</b> Constitution: Book 1 of The Legacy Fleet Series
<b>Price:</b> $3.99
<a href="https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B010L6JTO0/?coliid=I17MWIZQ9RA5TN&colid=1DJLN9PNW8R59&psc=0">Buy Now</a>

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