true-price

v0.1.5

A tool that scrapes Ebay for item listings and returns a list of matching items and their average sale price (excluding outliers).

See it in action 🔗

Dependencies

Puppeteer, and therefore this package, requires access to the filesystem. It therefore cannot be used in the browser. More about this here.

• Puppeteer
• Node.js
• Yarn
• Joi

Dev Dependencies

• Jest

Use

inside your project directory run

yarn add true-price

in your JS

const {truePrice} = require('truePrice');

const options = {
  type: 'ebay',
  verbose: true,
};

const ebay = truePrice.init(options);
return ebay.scrapeFor('nintendo switch').then(res => console.log(res.listings));

• Returns a POJO with list of matching items and the average sold price for that item

Sample result

{
  listings: [
    {
      title: 'Nintendo Switch 32gb lite - NIB yellow',
      price: '$170.00',
      date: 'Nov-4 09:14',
      image: 'https://i.ebayimg.com/thumbs/images/g/gEkAAOS...5.webp',
      link: 'https://www.ebay.com/itm/Nintendo-Switch-32gb-lite-NIB-yellow/353262609618?hash=...b',
      info: 'Open Box · Nintendo Switch · Nintendo Switch Lite'
    },
    {
      title: 'Nintendo Switch Lite Pokemon Edition (Zacian and Zamazenta Edition) + more!',
      price: '$256.00',
      date: 'Nov-4 09:09',
      image: 'https://i.ebayimg.com/thumbs/images/g/E14....webp',
      link: 'https://www.ebay.com/itm/Nintendo-Switch-Lite-Pokemon-Edition-Z...',
      info: 'Pre-Owned · Nintendo Switch · Nintendo Switch Lite'
    },...
  ],
  titles: [
    'Nintendo Switch 32gb lite - NIB yellow',
    'Nintendo Switch Lite Pokemon Edition (Zacian and Zamazenta Edition) + more!',...
  ],
  prices: [
    '$170.00', '$256.00',...
  ],
  dates: [
    'Nov-4 09:14', 'Nov-4 09:09',...
  ],
  images: [
    'https://i.ebayimg.com/thumbs/images/....webp',
    'https://i.ebayimg.com/thumbs/images/g/h...bp',...
  ],
  links: [
    'https://www.ebay.com/itm/Gray-Nintendo-Switch-Lite-Bundle-Original...',
    'https://www.ebay.com/itm/...',...
  ],
  info: [
    'Open Box · Nintendo Switch · Nintendo Switch Lite',
    'Pre-Owned · Nintendo Switch · Nintendo Switch Lite', ...
  ],
  ebayUrl: 'https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=nintendo+switch&...',
  filters: [ [ 'Show Only', 'Completed Items', 'Sold Items' ] ],
  averagePrice: 252.39857142857142
}

Roadmap

• [x] Scrape sold SERP for item price, title, images, and sold dates
• [x] Find the average price found for that item on the sold SERP
• [ ] Scrape x amount of listings
• [ ] Filter by price range
• [ ] Filter by date range
• [ ] Filter by category
• [ ] Filter by shipping price
• [ ] Filter by condition
• [ ] Filter by seller
• [ ] Browser support