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MJP
Jun 17, 2007

Are you looking at me Senpai?

Grimey Drawer
I play Star Wars Armada, and over the last few weeks, one of the expansion packs has come in stock and sold out really quickly. A bunch of people place orders, drain the stock, and then with no real warning, it comes back in stock. This only happens on the online store of the company that sells it - I have product alerts on Amazon and other online retailers that stock the product, and none of them have fired.

Is there some way I can set up a script or otherwise to run automatically and once per hour, check the webpage for whether or not it's in stock, then send me an email or text message if it returns to In Stock? On the page itself (https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/star-wars-armada/products/imperial-light-cruiser-expansion-pack/) there's an Out of Stock/In Stock indicator which checks each reload. I'm sure it's running something but I don't know web development/API use to accomplish this.

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Grimes
Nov 12, 2005

Distill! https://distill.io/apps/web-monitor

This allows you to monitor parts or an entire webpage for changes in a Chrome/Firefox add-on, and there's different notification options available. They also have a cloud service for $10 a month I think which will monitor sites without the add-on.

MJP
Jun 17, 2007

Are you looking at me Senpai?

Grimey Drawer

Grimes posted:

Distill! https://distill.io/apps/web-monitor

This allows you to monitor parts or an entire webpage for changes in a Chrome/Firefox add-on, and there's different notification options available. They also have a cloud service for $10 a month I think which will monitor sites without the add-on.

Nice, thanks! I wish my work didn't lock down browsers so I could install the extension locally, but my home PC is on at all times - that should do the trick once I set it up.

Once I get my one Arquitens I'll spread the word to the rest of the community!

Grimes
Nov 12, 2005

MJP posted:

Nice, thanks! I wish my work didn't lock down browsers so I could install the extension locally, but my home PC is on at all times - that should do the trick once I set it up.

Once I get my one Arquitens I'll spread the word to the rest of the community!
You can also run it on your phone.

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