I've been using CamelCamelCamel and Keepa for years to track price drops on Amazon, usually works fine. But I'm trying to grab a Sony 85mm f1.8 lens before my sister's wedding in October, budget is strictly under 450. The issue is, lately these trackers are lagging big time. My logic was that Camel would ping me instantly when it hits a new low, but last week I missed a lightning deal by like three hours because the email alert didn't trigger until the sale was already over.

So I started thinking about setting up a custom web scraper with Python and BeautifulSoup, maybe running it on a cron job, but Amazon's bot detection is aggressive now and I don't really want to pay for residential proxies just for a one-off purchase. I even looked into using some Discord webhooks but still have the scraping latency issue.

Is there a reliable way to get near-instant alerts now without getting my IP blocked? Maybe a Telegram bot or some self-hosted tool that actually works with Amazon's current anti-scraping measures?