Discount Bandit
Track pricing, stock status of products across multiple stores such as Amazon, Ebay, Walmart, etc.
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Still maintained? Yes: 32 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v-4.0.5 (Oct 2026).
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At a glance
Discount Bandit quick facts
- Health score
- 92/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 760
- Last commit
- 4 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v-4.0.5, Oct 2026
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Discount Bandit is a price tracker for your favorite products across multiple stores. It has a notification system built in, so you can be notified when the price drops or matches you criteria specified."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Discount Bandit scores 92/100, #10 of 32 in Automation: 32 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v-4.0.5, 7 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 760 stars add 11.5 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 8.5 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
32 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v-4.0.5 released 7 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 11.5 / 20
760 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 32
- Last 90 days
- 74
- Last 12 months
- 4 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #10 of 32 tools in Automation by health , between Fredy (#9) and gocron (#11) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | PHP, Docker |
| Latest release | v-4.0.5 · 7 days ago |
| Stars | 760 |
| Open issues | 9 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | Cybrarist/Discount-Bandit ↗ |
Discount Bandit vs its top 5 alternatives
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| Apache Airflow | 99 | 47k | Apache-2.0 | today |
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| Kestra | 98 | 30k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Discount Bandit (this tool) | 92 | 760 | GPL-3.0 | 4 days ago |
| n8n | 90 | 209k | Apache-2.0 | today |
Discount Bandit: common questions
Is Discount Bandit still maintained?
Discount Bandit had 32 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 4 days ago; the latest tagged release, v-4.0.5, is from 7 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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