If you’re anything like me you want lots of information readily accessible and easily integrated within websites. This desire recently became a point of frustration when dealing with pricing information. I was publishing an article discussing computer components and I wanted to provide real-time pricing/availability information within the article. Amazon.com makes obtaining this information easy enough but the site I really wanted to grab information from was Newegg.com. Unfortunately the only way to obtain pricing information from Newegg is to sign up for their affiliates program, create a list of items you would like information for, and download an updated catalog each day. This may be acceptable for some people but it wasn’t to me. Why should I have to become an affiliate to obtain pricing information? Why should I accept day old pricing information in a climate where pricing is subject to change several times a day? The answer is I shouldn’t and I won’t. Rather than deal with roundabout procedures I went ahead and wrote a simple function that parses the Newegg website for the information I desired. Since there seems to be some demand for this functionality I figured I would share the wealth. Click Here to view the Newegg Price Parser function and example usage.