Python Web Scraping & Automation – Itemku Price Monitoring + Auto Excel PROJECT DESCRIPTION I am looking for a **Python / Backend / Web Scraping Engineer** to build an automation bot with the following features: * Scrape price data from **itemku.com** on a regular basis * Collect prices from all competing stores * Determine the **lowest price** * If the lowest price is **NOT my store (Speed Toko)** → set price = lowest price − 1 IDR * If the lowest price **IS Speed Toko** → keep the current price (no reduction) * Automatically update/export the result to **Excel (.xlsx)** * Bot runs **continuously (polling every X minutes)** No frontend / UI required. REQUIRED SKILLS * Python * Web Scraping (XHR / Fetch or DOM scraping) * Playwright or Selenium * Handling JavaScript-heavy websites * Excel automation (.xlsx) * Able to run on local machine and VPS (Ubuntu) NICE TO HAVE * Experience handling anti-bot / Cloudflare * Experience scraping marketplaces / e-commerce * Cron / systemd setup * Clean, well-documented code EXPECTED DELIVERABLES * Python source code * Excel template * Setup & run instructions (README) * Working automation bot BUDGET Open / negotiable (based on stability and quality)