PriceDive
PriceDive is a Python-based e-commerce price tracking tool designed to expose deceptive pricing tactics such as artificial pre-sale inflation followed by fake discounts. It automatically monitors product prices across major platforms including Taobao, JD.com, and Pinduoduo to identify genuine deals versus manipulated promotions. The system retrieves daily price data, stores historical records in a local SQLite database, and calculates price fluctuations to reveal trends. Key features include multi-platform price comparison, professional visualization of price curves using Matplotlib, automatic detection of abnormal price swings, and the ability to generate and share detailed reports on Twitter to inform other consumers. The software supports Windows, Linux, and Mac environments and is fully open-source under the MIT license. Users can configure target products and platforms via a simple JSON configuration file and run the automation script to start tracking. PriceDive is particularly useful for shoppers prepa