django-amazon-price-monitor 0.6

Celery

You need to have a broker and a result backend set.

BROKER_URL = ...
CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND = ...

# some additional settings
CELERY_ACCEPT_CONTENT = ['pickle', 'json']
CELERY_CHORD_PROPAGATES = True

Rest-Framework

We use Rest-Framework for Angular frontend:

REST_FRAMEWORK = {
    'PAGINATE_BY': 50,
    'PAGINATE_BY_PARAM': 'page_size',
    'MAX_PAGINATE_BY': 100,
}

Site URL

Specify the base URL under which your site will be available. Defaults to: http://localhost:8000 Necessary for creating links to the site within the notification emails.

::

# base url to the site PRICE_MONITOR_BASE_URL = ‘https://….’

AWS and Product Advertising API credentials

# your Amazon Web Services access key id
PRICE_MONITOR_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = '...'

# your Amazon Web Services secret access key
PRICE_MONITOR_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = '...'

# the region endpoint you want to use.
# Typically the country you'll run the price monitor in.
# possible values: CA, CN, DE, ES, FR, IT, JP, UK, US
PRICE_MONITOR_AMAZON_PRODUCT_API_REGION = '...'

# the assoc tag of the Amazon Product Advertising API
PRICE_MONITOR_AMAZON_PRODUCT_API_ASSOC_TAG = '...'

Amazon associates

As the links to Amazon will be affiliate links with your Amazon associate tag (see above), you have to set your name for the disclaimer (see https://partnernet.amazon.de/gp/associates/agreement).

# name of you/your site
PRICE_MONITOR_AMAZON_ASSOCIATE_NAME = 'name/sitename'
# Amazon site being used, choose from on of the following
    'Amazon.co.uk'
    'Local.Amazon.co.uk'
    'Amazon.de'
    'de.BuyVIP.com'
    'Amazon.fr'
    'Amazon.it'
    'it.BuyVIP.com'
    'Amazon.es'
    'es.BuyVIP.com'
PRICE_MONITOR_AMAZON_ASSOCIATE_SITE = '<ONE FROM ABOVE>'

Images protocol and domain

# if to use the HTTPS URLs for Amazon images.
# if you're running the monitor on SSL, set this to True
# INFO:
#  Product images are served directly from Amazon.
#  This is a restriction when using the Amazon Product Advertising API
PRICE_MONITOR_IMAGES_USE_SSL = True

# domain to use for image serving.
# typically analog to the api region following the URL pattern
#  https://images-<REGION>.ssl-images-amazon.com
PRICE_MONITOR_AMAZON_SSL_IMAGE_DOMAIN = 'https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com'

Product synchronization

# time after which products shall be refreshed
# Amazon only allows caching up to 24 hours, so the maximum value is 1440!
PRICE_MONITOR_AMAZON_PRODUCT_REFRESH_THRESHOLD_MINUTES = 720  # 12 hours

Notifications

To be able to send out the notification emails, set up a proper email backend (see Django documentation).

# time after which to notify the user again about a price limit hit (in minutes)
PRICE_MONITOR_SUBSCRIPTION_RENOTIFICATION_MINUTES = 10080  # 7 days

# sender address of the notification email
PRICE_MONITOR_EMAIL_SENDER = 'noreply@localhost'

# currency name to use on notifications
PRICE_MONITOR_DEFAULT_CURRENCY = 'EUR'

# subject and body of the notification emails
gettext = lambda x: x
PRICE_MONITOR_I18N_EMAIL_NOTIFICATION_SUBJECT = gettext(
    'Price limit for %(product)s reached'
)
PRICE_MONITOR_I18N_EMAIL_NOTIFICATION_BODY = gettext(
    'The price limit of %(price_limit)0.2f %(currency)s has been reached for the '
    'article "%(product_title)s" - the current price is %(price)0.2f %(currency)s.'
    '\n\nPlease support our platform by using this '
    'link for buying: %(link)s\n\n\nRegards,\nThe Team'
)

# name of the site in notifications
PRICE_MONITOR_SITENAME = 'Price Monitor'

Caching

# key of cache (according to project config) to use for graphs
# None disables caching.
PRICE_MONITOR_GRAPH_CACHE_NAME = None

# prefix for cache key used for graphs
PRICE_MONITOR_GRAPH_CACHE_KEY_PREFIX = 'graph_'