# jef/streetmerchant

🤖 The world's easiest, most powerful stock checker

Repository: https://github.com/jef/streetmerchant
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/streetmerchant
Homepage: https://jef.buzz/streetmerchant
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: bot, shopping, hacktoberfest
Last push: 2026-04-08T07:57:04+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 64/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 76, release rhythm 28, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2176, "days_push": 147, "days_rel": 409, "gap_med": 85.5, "n_releases_24m": 3}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5402, forks 1314 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:17.544903+00:00)

## What it is
streetmerchant is a Node.js application that continuously checks retail websites for product stock availability, with optional add-to-cart support and notifications across many platforms. It includes an optional live web dashboard for managing stores, series, and configuration while running.

## Use cases
- notify me when a graphics card is back in stock
- monitor PS5 availability at multiple retailers
- check stock of GPUs 24/7 without refreshing manually
- get alerts when Nintendo Switch 2 or CPUs come in stock
- add hard-to-find items to cart automatically when available
- track inventory across Best Buy, Newegg, Amazon, and Micro Center

## When to choose
- you want automated, continuous stock monitoring with multi-platform notifications
- you need a self-hosted bot with a live dashboard and configurable store/series filters
- you want community-maintained store links for GPUs, consoles, and CPUs

## When to avoid
- you expect fully automatic purchasing - the bot deliberately does not buy for you
- you need guaranteed uptime in the cloud, since some retailers block datacenter IPs
- you want a zero-setup hosted service rather than running Node.js or Docker yourself

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, monitoring, alerting, workflow-automation
- domain: e-commerce, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform, self-hosted
- tags: stock-checker, shopping-bot, price-monitor, web-dashboard, typescript, notification, automation, nodejs, docker

## Member repositories
- jef/streetmerchant (main) score 64

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:17.544903+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:57:48.491066+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jef/streetmerchant (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:17.544903+00:00, sha 5eea1c675c97)
  - homepage: https://jef.buzz/streetmerchant (fetched 2026-08-29T08:52:49.501944+00:00, sha 8e1d1782b70d)
  - site_page: https://www.jef.buzz/streetmerchant/getting-started (fetched 2026-08-29T08:52:49.511777+00:00, sha 459e8db40ce6)
  - site_page: https://www.jef.buzz/streetmerchant/about (fetched 2026-08-29T08:52:49.518367+00:00, sha 6ea174703a6a)
  - site_page: https://www.jef.buzz/streetmerchant/faq (fetched 2026-08-29T08:52:49.513939+00:00, sha 156f4e9f802f)
  - site_page: https://www.jef.buzz/streetmerchant/changelog (fetched 2026-08-29T08:52:49.515611+00:00, sha fa826476330f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.