taobao_checker

A tiny tool to check item price on different host of taobao

taobao_checker is a free software, you can use, modify or distribute it without restriction, visit http://whusnoopy.github.io/taobao_checker/LICENSE.html for more detail

WARNING

As taobao changed their page output, this tool is useless after 2016

Demo

~~There is a demo on my own server: http://checker.yewen.us~~

Usage under command line

usage: checker.py [-h] [-c CORRECT_PRICE] [-r RETRY] [-f] item_id

positional arguments:
  item_id               num_iid to check

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -c CORRECT_PRICE, --correct_price CORRECT_PRICE
                        correct price should be
  -r RETRY, --retry RETRY
                        retry times
  -f, --full            output all columns

Usage via web

Clone this repo

$ git clone git@github.com:whusnoopy/taobao_checker.git
$ cd taobao_checker

Prepare a virtual env

$ virtualenv env
$ source env/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Run server

$ env/bin/python flask_server.py

or use the run_flask.sh script

$ ./run_flask.sh

Using in your browser

Just open http://localhost:9960 to use this tool

Stop server

Press Ctrl + C in terminal if you started server by python, or use run_flask.sh script to stop it

$ ./run_flask.sh stop