aliexpress-price-tracker/README.md

aliexpress-price-tracker

Price tracker for aliexpress.

A file containing aliexpress login token cookies has to be provided in /app/cookies.json (obtained with cookie-quick-manager https://github.com/ysard/cookie-quick-manager/) for accurate prices (no "welcome discount").

how to use (with podman)

build

podman build --tag alipricetrack:1.0.0 -f ./Dockerfile
podman build --tag alipricetrack_cron:1.0.0 -f ./CronDockerfile

run

podman pod create --name aliexpress -p 8080:8080

podman run -d --pod=aliexpress -e POSTGRES_DB="aliexpress" -e POSTGRES_USER="postgres" -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD="postgres" -v /home/data/podman/aliexpress/db:/var/lib/postgresql/data:Z --name ali-db docker.io/postgres

podman run -d --pod=aliexpress -e POSTGRES_DB="aliexpress" -e POSTGRES_USER="postgres" -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD="postgres" -v /home/data/podman/aliexpress/cookies.json:/app/cookies.json:Z --name ali-app alipricetrack:1.0.0

podman run -d --pod=aliexpress -e WAIT_TIME="1d" --name ali-cron alipricetrack_cron:1.0.0

WAIT_TIME is the time to wait between each database refresh, it can be in:

• s : seconds
• m : minutes
• h : hours
• d : days

If not specified, default wait time is 1 day.

For reverse proxy configuration see example-nginx.conf