A Price Tracker for Amazon and Flipkart, Built with Google Docs

Introduction:

The prices of products listed on online shopping site like Amazon or Flipkart may vary every single day and here’s a simple Google Docs based solution to help you keep track of these price fluctuations via email. This helps because if Amazon is offering some big discount on a product that you were planning to buy, you would never miss that deal again.

Track Prices with Google Docs

All you have to do is add the URLs of products that you wish to track inside a Google Spreadsheet. The tool can track prices of all products listed on various Amazon websites (all Amazon.* country domains are supported) and Flipkart.com (if you are shopping in India).

Here’s how you can setup the price tracker inside your Google Docs:

1. Open the Google Sheet and enter one or more URLs of product pages from Amazon or Flipkart in column B. The sheet has some dummy data to get you started.
2. From the Price Tracker menu, choose the Initialize menu and say “Accept” when asked for authorization. The script is open-source and no one else will have access to your data.
3. From the Price Tracker menu, choose Start Tracking and your price tracker is now active. You may close the Google Sheet.