Ive been using simple price tracking scripts for years to monitor my local Walmart inventory and pricing, mostly for some side hustle reselling stuff on eBay. Usually, I just run a basic python crawler but lately their site seems to be throwing way more anti-bot captchas at me or just straight up blocking my IP after a few refreshes. Its super annoying because I have a tight budget and really cant afford a fancy proxy service right now. I need to keep an eye on about 50 items for a project I want to launch by next month, but the manual checking is killing me and the automated stuff I built just isnt holding up anymore. Is there a decent tool or maybe a lightweight extension that actually works reliably for Walmart without getting flagged immediately? I dont mind paying a few bucks if it saves me from rebuilding my entire backend, but I definitely dont need enterprise level software. Has anyone found something that handles the dynamic pricing updates well?
Honestly, I stopped building my own scrapers years ago. PriceDropCatch is a solid free option that works fine for me, or check out CamelCamelCamel if you want something simple.