How to track prices of Amazon Kindle books from Windows command line

Introduction

In this article, we are going to show you how to track the prices of Amazon Kindle books using the Price Tracker command line tool for Windows.

Installing the tool

First, head to https://labs.relbis.com/blog/price-tracker and download the tool.

Once the tool is downloaded, unzip it into a folder.

Open Command Prompt and navigate to the folder with the tool. Now you are ready to add a new product.

Adding a new product

Head to Amazon.com and find a kindle book that you want to track.

Copy the URL from the browser.

Run "price-tracker add URL" command from the command prompt to start tracking your product. Remember to replace the URL with the actual URL that you copied in the previous step.

For example, to track prices for 'Marvel Encyclopedia New Edition' the following command should be used:

price-tracker add https://www.amazon.com/Marvel-Encyclopedia-New-Stan-Lee-ebook/dp/B0875TX977

Use "price-tracker list" command to see the list of tracked products. Here is an example of the output that is provided by this command:

|  # | Name                                                                      | Store      |  First |   Last | Change |
|----|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------|--------|--------|--------|
|  1 | Marvel Encyclopedia New Edition                                           | amazon.com |   1.99 |   1.99 |        |

Updating the price

Run "price-tracker update" command from the command prompt to update the prices of tracked products. Remember to run this command periodically to keep the tracked information up-to-date.

Here is an example of the output produced by the command:

|  # | Name                                                                      | Store      | Previous |   Last | Change |
|----|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------|----------|--------|--------|
| 01 | Marvel Encyclopedia New Edition                                           | amazon.com |     1.99 |   1.59 |  -0.40 |

Remember to use "price-tracker list" command to see the initial and current prices for all tracked products.

Conclusion

Now you know how to track the prices of Amazon Kindle books! You can also use this tool to track any other products on Amazon.

If you have questions about using this tool or have ideas about how it can be improved, please comment here or on the product page.