What is streetmerchant?

Street Merchant is a tool that automatically watches websites for products you want and alerts you the moment they're back in stock. Instead of constantly refreshing product pages yourself, you set it up once and it checks around the clock, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, looking for items you've told it to monitor. When something becomes available, it can notify you instantly through text, email, Discord, or other platforms, and it can even add the item to your cart and open your browser so you're ready to buy. The tool is designed to help you beat the rush when popular items drop. Rather than competing with hundreds of other people manually hitting refresh, Street Merchant does that work for you automatically. It doesn't buy anything on your behalf, you always stay in control of the actual purchase, but it removes the need to obsessively check stock levels yourself and gives you a real-time heads-up when your window to buy opens. Anyone who's struggled to buy limited items will find this useful: gamers hunting for graphics cards, sneaker enthusiasts chasing rare releases, or shoppers trying to snag products during shortages. Instead of sitting at your computer all day, you can go about your life and get a notification on your phone the moment something you want becomes available. The setup is straightforward, you clone the code from GitHub, install it on your computer using Node.js, and configure which products to watch and where to get alerts. What sets Street Merchant apart is that it's genuinely easy to set up for someone without deep technical skills, yet powerful enough to handle real-world monitoring at scale. It's free, open-source, and has a community of users sharing tips and configurations. The barrier to entry is low: if you can follow a few command-line instructions, you can have it running.