README
pilot-fish
A Node.js command line utility to check the prices of PC games on various sites
Installation
$ npm install -g pilot-fish
Usage
The program is called using the pf
command with the following structure:
$ pf [options] <title> [limit]
The options available are:
-h, --help output usage information
-V, --version output the version number
-b, --best only display the best price for each title; if multiple stores have the item for the same price, only the first entry processed will be displayed
-s, --sale only display items that are on sale
title
represents a string that will be passed as the search query to each webpage.
The limit
is the number of results you want to see from each store; The default is 1.
If the game you're looking for doesn't appear in the results, try making the title more specific and increasing the limit.
Examples
$ pf skyrim
#=> The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: $19.99 from steam
#=> The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim®: $19.99 from greenmangaming.com
#=> The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: $19.99 from amazon.com
Note that gog.com does not carry AAA titles (with a few exceptions) and may not return a result.
$ pf -s 'dark souls' 4
#=> Dark Souls II: $49.99 $22.99 from greenmangaming.com
When a game is on sale, the normal price will be displayed first in gray, followed by the current sale price in green.
Release History
- 2016-04-18 v1.1.2 Bug fixes.
- 2016-03-28 v1.0.2 Initial release.
Contributing
This project is licensed under the MIT License. If you contribute code to this project, you are implicitly allowing that code to be published under the MIT License.
License
Copyright (c) 2016 Jeff Minnear
Licensed under the MIT license.