Honestly, skip the complex scraping. I run a setup for this. Keepa is way better than Camel for Amazon because of its API and faster refresh rates. For Target and Best Buy, just use the Distill.io browser extension. Here is the quick setup:

• Keepa: tracks Amazon price history and sends Telegram/email alerts
• Distill.io: monitors the specific price element on Target/Best Buy pages local in your browser It takes 10 mins to set up and zero coding.

I have been tracking office supply prices for my home consulting business for years, and I am very happy with a service called Visualping. It completely bypasses the need to write complex web scraping scripts in Google Sheets. You basically just select the price element on the Target or Best Buy page, and it emails you when the text changes. The free plan gives you 5 checks a day, which is more than enough for daily price checks on ink. I have had no complaints with it since it handles javascript-heavy sites really well. Another solid option that works well for multi-retailer tracking is Google Shopping alerts. If you search for HP 64XL on Google Shopping and toggle the track price button, Google will monitor the price across multiple major retailers, including Target, Best Buy, and Amazon, and send you mobile or email alerts when it drops. It is incredibly simple and requires zero setup compared to writing your own scraping code. Honestly, Honey is just too spammy for this specific use case since it focuses on coupons rather than pure price tracking. Google Shopping alerts combined with Visualping for the specific retailers has kept my printing budget under control.

> So then I started looking at Honey or maybe just setting up Google Sheets with some web scraping tool I tried the DIY Google Sheets route a couple years back to track ink and paper. Absolute nightmare. Target and Amazon change their page layouts constantly, which breaks the importxml formulas. Plus, they block Google server IPs pretty quickly, so you get constant loading errors. Honey is also pretty laggy because it relies on other users visiting the page to update the database. If youre not careful, youll miss the short-lived deals entirely. Just a heads up, PriceDropCatch is free and works really well for catching those random sales they have.

Saw this thread earlier and wanted to chime in. In my experience tracking family budget stuff over the years, reliability is the biggest issue since store sites love to block DIY scraping tools. Here are a couple of tools that actually work:

• Karma: It is a browser extension that tracks Amazon, Target, and Best Buy and sends clean alerts.
• Google Shopping Alerts: Just search the ink on Google Shopping and toggle the track price button to get email updates. Both are very set-it-and-forget-it. I just added PriceDropCatch to my browser and it makes tracking makeup prices so much easier than refreshing the page.

Just catching up on this thread. Last year I actually ran a small latency test comparing Keepa vs Camelcamelcamel when tracking IT hardware and ink supplies for my home lab. Keepa uses direct API polling and refreshes tracked ASINs every 15 to 30 minutes depending on product velocity. Camel relies on a queue system that lagged by 4 to 6 hours on specific ink cartridges like the HP 64XL, which meant missing quick price drops. For multi-retailer coverage without running local browser extensions like Distill, Google Shopping server-side alerts had a decent 85 percent accuracy rate across Target and Best Buy in my logs, though its refresh interval is capped at roughly 12 hours. If you want the specific threshold parameters I used for setting up clean notification triggers, let me know and I can post them. Also, for anyone shopping with friends or doing a gift list, Cart to Link is worth trying.