My main gig is working in automotive parts departments. At least once a day I have someone coming in looking for parts that I either, cant get OR, the price is absolutely stupid. I like to have a quick lookup to see if RockAuto is a supplier, and how cheap this part really can be sold for. Its good for me to know when quoting parts locally, and also give me the option to send the client to RockAuto if that’s what it comes to. Its very simple, and just runs in the terminal, but its very handy and I use it every day!

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests

def task():

    partn = input("Enter Part # to search in RockAuto: ")
    base_url = "https://www.rockauto.com/en/partsearch/?partnum="
    request_to_send = (f"{base_url}{partn}")
    req = requests.get(request_to_send)
    req_code = req.status_code
    
    
    if req_code == 200:
        print(f"Response code: {req_code}, good connection")
    else:
        print(f"Response code: {req_code}, connection failed!")



    soup = BeautifulSoup(req.text, features= "html.parser")
    try:
        price = soup.find('span', id=lambda x: x and x.startswith('dtotal')).text
    except:
        print("No price found")
    try:
        print(f"Cheapest price found in RockAuto is: {price}")
    except:
        pass
    
    x = input("Press 'c' to close, or 'enter to try another part number.")
    if x == "c":
        pass
    else:
        task()

task()