Hobbyking LiPo Compare

Parses all the LiPo batteries available on Hobbyking, either from the Global or US (West) Warehouse

Works with both python 2 and 3

Dependencies

• python requests (http://docs.python-requests.org/)
• python lxml (http://lxml.de/)

On Debian (or variants)

Python 2

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install python-requests python-lxml

Python 3

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install python3-requests python3-lxml

Usage

1. Download however you would like, git clone, zip, etc
2. cd into the directory
3. Run with ./lipoCompare.py or python3 lipoCompare.py \ python2 lipoCompare.py

It will print out the top 20 Wh/$ batteries, to change this the processData() function would need to be tweaked

Running without the getData() function call commented out will fetch and save all of the data into a python shelve. Subsequent runs can have getData() commented out with just processData() to display everything, unless Hobbyking's listings have changed then you will want to refetch all of the battery data with getData()

Setting us=True to us=False will cause this to get the Global Warehouse prices, which are cheaper but shipping is usually more.