Settings

These are app wide settings that allow you to configure how PriceBuddy behaves.

Scraper settings

These settings control how the scraper behaves. The scraper is responsible for fetching the product details from the product URL.

Fetch schedule time - Prices will be scraped once a day, this setting lets you control when that happens.

Scrape cache ttl - When a page is scraped, it will be cached for this amount of time. This is to prevent scraping the same page multiple times in a short period. This value is in minutes with the default of 720 minutes (12 hours).

Seconds to wait before fetching next page - To avoid being blocked by the store, we wait this amount of seconds before fetching the next page. The default is 10 seconds.

Max scrape attempts - If the scraper fails to fetch the page, it will retry this amount of times. The default is 3 attempts.

Logging

Log retention days - The amount of days to keep logs for. The default is 30 days.

Notifications

This is where global notification settings are configured. For a notification service to work, it must first be enabled, then the appropriate settings added.

Email - Configure the SMTP settings for sending emails.

Pushover - Configure the Pushover settings for sending push notifications.

Note: these are global settings, each user must enable the notification method in their own account settings.

Integrations

This is where you can configure integrations with other services.

SearXNG - SearXNG is a self-hostable search engine that can be used to search for products and add them to PriceBuddy. To use this feature, you must have a SearXNG instance and PriceBuddy must be able to access it. Additionally SearXNG must be configured to allow returning results as JSON (See the SearXNG documentation).