Ive been using price trackers for ages now, usually just sticking with the standard browser extensions like Keepa to look at the historical data before I pull the trigger on something. It usually works fine for stuff that stays in stock but lately Ive been trying to hunt down some specific parts for a video editing rig I'm building here in Chicago and things are moving way too fast. I'm looking at a specific 4K monitor and some high-end NVMe drives and the prices fluctuate like crazy every couple of hours.

The problem is that the alert features on the stuff I'm using now seem delayed. I'll get an email saying the price dropped by 20% but by the time I click the link and the page loads the deal is already gone or it was some lightning deal that expired. It's super frustrating because I'm on a pretty strict $2,000 budget for the whole build and every thirty bucks I save on a component means I can maybe squeeze in a better GPU. I even tried setting up a basic Python script with a scraper a few weeks ago but Amazon keeps hitting me with those CAPTCHAs or just blocking the requests entirely which I should have expected I guess.

I need something that is basically instant. I dont mind paying a small sub if it actually works or if there is some way to integrate it with Discord or Telegram via a webhook so I get a ping on my phone the second the price hits my target. I heard people talk about using some sort of server-side monitoring but I havent dipped my toes into that yet. Is there a way to get these alerts without constantly refreshing a tab or relying on those slow-as-hell email notifications? What are people using these days for real-time tracking that doesnt get shadowbanned by Amazon's bot detection?