Ive been using CamelCamelCamel for years to track Amazon deals so I feel pretty comfortable with web scraping scripts and basic price history analysis, but Im hitting a wall with Walmart. I am trying to build a small price alert system for a specific list of electronics I want to snag for my home office setup before the end of the month since my budget is super tight right now—probably around 400 bucks total. I thought I could just whip up a quick Python script to hit the Walmart API or even just parse the site, but their bot detection is honestly brutal lately. Every time I try to run a simple requests session it either throws a 403 or gives me weird dynamic content that doesnt actually contain the price data. I dont have time to spend three weeks rotating proxies or messing with headless browsers just to see if a monitor dropped five dollars.

Everything I find online for tracking Walmart seems to be either a sketchy mobile app full of ads or some paid service that wants a monthly subscription which is totally out of the question for my current budget. Is there actually a decent, reliable piece of software for Windows PC that just lets me plug in a URL and get a notification when the price dips? Ive looked at browser extensions, but they are so inconsistent and I really prefer having something I can keep running on my desktop without needing a chrome tab open 24/7. It feels like this should be such a standard thing but everything seems locked behind these shady third party apps that look like they havent been updated since 2015. Does anyone have a workaround or an app that actually handles the request headers properly without getting banned immediately?