So I’ve been a loyal Keepa and CamelCamelCamel user for what feels like a decade now when it comes to Amazon stuff. I usually pride myself on never paying full price for electronics or big appliances because I just wait for those historical low points to hit. But honestly I’m hitting a wall with Walmart. I just moved into a new place in Austin and I’m trying to furnish it without going totally broke, specifically looking at this Vizio 65 inch and some Ninja kitchen gear that fluctuates like crazy.

My logic was that since Walmart is basically the only real rival to Amazon in terms of scale, there’d be a bunch of reliable, free trackers for their inventory too. I tried using Honey’s Droplist feature but it feels super inconsistent lately and sometimes it doesnt even pick up the price change until like six hours after it happens and by then the stock is usually gone anyway. I also looked into some Chrome extensions that claim to do it but half of them look like malware or they want a monthly sub after the first three items. I’m definitely a free or nothing kind of person for this stuff since the whole point is saving money lol.

I was thinking maybe there's some kind of script or a less-known web app that actually scrapes Walmart properly? I know their site uses a lot of dynamic loading which probably makes it a pain for simple scrapers to handle. I even tried setting up some basic Google Sheets imports with Xpath but it kept getting blocked by their bot detection. Really annoying because I know the prices are dropping, I just cant catch them in time.

Is there anything out there that actually works for free and isn't a total headache to set up? Just something that can ping my email when the price hits my target. I'm not looking for anything enterprise level, just a simple tracker that doesnt sell my data to a million third parties...