lkora / ikea-stock-checker

Request based program that checks availability of items in IKEA.

IKEA Stock Checker

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Currently works only for IKEA in Belgrade, Serbia

Script reads page responses for all the product links given in the file periodically, checking if the given item is in stock or not. If the item becomes available in stock it notifies the user via e-mail.

Prerequisites

• python 3
• requests
• json
• os

Executing

python3 main.py

Output

    Item:
     id: 70261150
     url: https://www.ikea.com/rs/sr/p/markus-kancelarijska-stolica-vissle-tamnosiva-70261150/
     name: MARKUS
     type: Kancelarijska stolica
     design: Vissle tamnosiva
     currency_code: RSD
     price_incl_vat: 14999
     price_no_vat: 12499.17
     revamp_price: 14999
     in_stock_range_code: YES
     in_stock_available: 0
     restock_date_time: 2021-03-27
     restock_date_time_period: DAY

    Stock forecast:
    Date: 2021-03-20 	When: DAY 	NoAvailable: 0 	Where: STORE 	Probability: LOW
    Date: 2021-03-21 	When: DAY 	NoAvailable: 0 	Where: STORE 	Probability: LOW
    Date: 2021-03-22 	When: DAY 	NoAvailable: 0 	Where: STORE 	Probability: LOW
    Date: 2021-03-23 	When: DAY 	NoAvailable: 0 	Where: STORE 	Probability: LOW

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TODO

• Rewrite request_is_valid to give clearer information
• Move main snippets to functions
• Implement product generated url
• Implement read list of urls from file
• Implement E-mail notification
• Create shell script that will call this periodically
• Make a web page to make it more seamless
• Figure out ART meaning
• Make it global