davidteather / Hotukdeals-Discord-Notifier

A commissioned project to notify a user on discord about new deals matching specific criteria.

HotUkDeals-Discord-Notifier

This is a website scraping program designed to scrape this website. It allows the user to input specific criteria and when the program finds a result that matches the criteria you will be notified on discord.

Getting Started

The following instructions will help you get you running this software.

Prerequisites

To install the python requirements please run the command below.

pip install pip install beautifulsoup4

Installing

Have python 3.x installed. This was tested with 3.7.3

Running the program

To run the software you first need to add information into the proxies.txt and settings.json.

Example of settings.json

{
    "min_upvotes": "500",
    "max_upvotes": "1000",
    "base_url": "https://www.hotukdeals.com",
    "pages_to_index": "10",
    "discord_api_token": "1234567890",
    "min_price": "0",
    "max_price": "500",
    "discord_channel_id": "1234567890",
    "time_interval_seconds": "1800",
    "proxy": "False"
}

min_upvotes - The minimum amount of upvotes / degrees to be notified of.

max_upvotes - The maximum amount of upvotes / degrees to be notified of.

base_url - The base url to be scanned. Default works fine.

pages_to_index - The amount of pages you want to index default is 10.

discord_api_token - Your discord API token for your bot. Here is a good article on how to get your bot's api token.

min_price - The minimum price of the deal you want to be notified of.

max_price - The maximum price of the deal you want to be notified of.

discord_channel_id - The discord channel ID you want your bot to be talk in and notify you of. Here is a good article on how you are able to get your discord channel id.

time_interval_seconds - The amount of time in seconds that you want to delay after all the pages are scraped. I recommend over 30 minutes.

Example of proxies.txt and httpsProxy.txt

1234.1234.1234:1010

Each line should be a new proxy with a port, must be able to manage SSL.

Http proxy addresses go into the proxies.txt and https proxy addresses go into the httpsProxy.txt file.

Executing the program

Once you have all of the json files configured as you would like simpily run the command below.

python main.py

The bot will then notify you on discord when the deals match your criteria.

Built With

• Python 3.7 - The language used

Authors

• David Teather - Initial work - davidteather

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details