tweakers-pricewatch

Unofficial Python client for Tweakers.net Pricewatch — the biggest price comparison site in the Netherlands.

Lets you search products, browse categories, pull current shop prices, and grab full price history (years of daily min/avg data). All from reverse-engineered endpoints, no API key needed.

Install

Just requests as a dependency. Copy tweakers.py + categories.json into your project, or:

pip install requests

Quick start

from tweakers import TweakersClient

client = TweakersClient()

Search for a product

results = client.search("DDR5 6000")
for r in results:
    print(f"[{r.product_id}] {r.name} — {r.url}")

Or grab just the first match:

r = client.search_one("F4-3600C16D-32GTZN")
if r:
    print(f"{r.name} [{r.product_id}]")

Browse a category

List all products in a category with pagination and sorting — 40 items per page:

page = client.browse_category("smartphones", sort="prijs", sort_dir="asc")

print(f"{page.total_count} products, page {page.page}/{page.total_pages}")
for item in page.items[:5]:
    print(f"  {item.name} — EUR {item.price} ({item.shop_count} shops)")

Auto-paginate through all results with browse_all():

for item in client.browse_all("interne-ssds"):
    print(f"{item.name}: EUR {item.price}")

Limit to the first N pages:

for item in client.browse_all("videokaarten", max_pages=3):
    print(f"{item.name}: EUR {item.price}")

Sort by "prijs" (price), "popularity", or "score" (rating). See CATEGORIES.md for all 243 available category slugs.

Note: Default sort is prijs ascending - cheapest first. If you're looking for a specific high-value SKU (e.g. an RTX 5090 in videokaarten, which has 900+ entries), set sort="popularity" and sort_dir="desc" so the SKU shows up on the first page. Otherwise you may need to paginate deep into the long tail before the product appears, or use search() for exact lookups.

Look up categories

from tweakers import get_categories, category_id

cats = get_categories()            # {slug: {id, name}, ...}
cid = category_id("videokaarten")  # -> 49

Price history

Daily min and average prices going back years:

history = client.get_price_history(2064068)

print(f"{len(history.prices)} days of data")
print(f"Lowest ever: EUR {history.lowest_ever} ({history.lowest_ever_date})")
print(f"Last known:  EUR {history.last_price} ({history.last_price_date})")

for p in history.prices[-5:]:
    print(f"  {p.date}  min=EUR {p.min_price}  avg=EUR {p.avg_price}")

Belgium prices too:

history_be = client.get_price_history(2064068, country="be")

Product info

Structured data from JSON-LD:

info = client.get_product_info(2064068)
print(f"{info.brand} {info.name}")
print(f"MPN: {info.mpn}")        # ['KF560C30BBEK2-32']
print(f"EAN: {info.gtin}")        # ['0740617342994']
print(f"EUR {info.low_price} - {info.high_price} ({info.offer_count} shops)")

Current shop prices

All offers:

offers = client.get_current_prices(2064068)
for o in offers:
    print(f"  {o.shop_name}: EUR {o.price}")

Or just the cheapest:

cheapest = client.get_cheapest_offer(2064068)
if cheapest:
    print(f"EUR {cheapest.price} at {cheapest.shop_name}")

Combo: info + prices in one request

info, offers = client.get_product_details(2064068)

Extract product ID from a URL

pid = TweakersClient.product_id_from_url(
    "https://tweakers.net/pricewatch/2064068/kingston-fury-beast-kf560c30bbek2-32.html"
)
# -> 2064068

How it works

No official API exists. This uses reverse-engineered endpoints:

Endpoint	Auth	Returns
/ajax/zoeken/pricewatch/?keyword=...	None	Search results (JSON)
/{category}/vergelijken/?page=...	Session cookies	Category listing with pagination (HTML)
/ajax/price_chart/{id}/{country}/	None	Full price history (JSON)
/pricewatch/{id}/	Session cookies	Product page with JSON-LD + shop listings (HTML)

The search and price history endpoints need zero authentication — they just work. Product and category pages need a session cookie which the client obtains automatically on init by following Tweakers' DPG Media consent redirect.

Category IDs are stored in categories.json (243 categories). To refresh:

python scripts/update_categories.py

Limitations

• Search returns ~8 results max (it's the autocomplete/suggest endpoint, not full search — the real search page has reCAPTCHA). Use browse_category() to list products by category instead.
• Category browsing and shop offer parsing use regex on HTML, so they may break if Tweakers redesigns the page
• Price history only covers NL and BE
• Be nice with request frequency — there's no rate limiting implemented, so add your own delays if you're hitting it in a loop

License

MIT