Amazon author check

A fully automated tool for scraping the Amazon author page and sending alers when new books are available

Features

Support for Pushover notifications
Support for single and all authors
Support for custom author list
Support for custom author folder

Description

A simple All-In-One python script to scrape information from the Amazon author pages and comparing this to known local data.

Setup

This script is usable form your local system or with the use of a docker container.

Download

Clone the git repo to local

git clone https://github.com/jopbakker/amazonbooks_python.git

Local installation

Using this local version requires python 3.x to be installed on your system. Python can be installed from the Python website.

$ pip3 install -r docker/requirements.txt

Docker installation

In order yo use this docker container you must first install docker from the Docker website or with you package manager.

cd amazonbooks_python/docker
sudo docker build -t amazonbooks:latest .

Usage

python.exe .\amazonbooks.py -h
usage: amazonbooks.py [-h] [-a CHECK_AUTHOR] [-aL AUTHOR_LIST] [--author-file-folder AUTHOR_FILES_FOLDER] [--log-level LOG_LEVEL] [--test TEST_RUN] [-Pu USER_TOKEN] [-Pa API_TOKEN]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -a CHECK_AUTHOR, --author CHECK_AUTHOR
                        Custom author check - [Default: all]
  -aL AUTHOR_LIST, --author-list AUTHOR_LIST
                        Custom filename for the csv file containing authors and urls - [Default: authors.csv]
  --author-file-folder AUTHOR_FILES_FOLDER
                        Custom authors file location - [Default: authors]
  --log-level LOG_LEVEL
                        Set the level of logs to show (Options: DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL) - [Default: INFO]
  --test TEST_RUN       Set this to 'True' to run the script without sending the pushover message or saving the author files - [Default: False]

  -Pu USER_TOKEN, --pushover-user-token USER_TOKEN
                        Pushover user token
  -Pa API_TOKEN, --pushover-api-token API_TOKEN
                        Pushover API token

Looking up all authors (default)

Native

python3 amazonbooks.py -Pu "<Pushover user key>" -Pa "<Pushover API key>"

Docker

docker run --rm -it -v ${PWD}:/app amazonbooks -Pu "<Pushover user key>" -Pa "<Pushover API key>"

Looking up a single author

Native

python3 amazonbooks.py -a Brandon_Sanderson -Pu "<Pushover user key>" -Pa "<Pushover API key>"

Docker

docker run --rm -it -v ${PWD}:/app amazonbooks -a Brandon_Sanderson -Pu "<Pushover user key>" -Pa "<Pushover API key>"

License

The project is licensed under MIT License.