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Hello,
When I tried to use this script for some projects, it always shows this error in the title.
Here is one of the links used:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/237916976/dreamscreen-smart-led-backlighting-for-any-hdmi-tv
Thank you

Kickstarter was updated and the watch is not working anymore

You have included ZERO information on how to use this...

Trying to monitor a project that is currently live, but I keep getting "No unavailable limited rewards for this Kickstarter" as an error, with the latest version of the script.

The URL I'm trying with is as follows:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/812287807/thousand-finally-a-bike-helmet-youd-actually-want

Any thoughts?

HTML structure changed ... would recommend moving to the API or updating the scraping code.

E:\Downloads\kickstarter-pledge-watch-master>kswatch.py https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1062682568/umbra
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "E:\Downloads\kickstarter-pledge-watch-master\kswatch.py", line 191, in
selected = pledge_menu(rewards)
File "E:\Downloads\kickstarter-pledge-watch-master\kswatch.py", line 145, in pledge_menu
print '%u. $%u %s' % (i + 1, rewards[i][0], rewards[i][4][:70])
File "C:\Python27\lib\encodings\cp437.py", line 12, in encode
return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_map)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\u2013' in position 14: character maps to

As stated here:

(v) use manual or automated software, devices, or other processes to "crawl" or "spider" any page of the Site.

Your script does by definition "spider" web pages, meaning you are extracting information from webpages to process those later on.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/meld/meld-a-perfect-meal-every-time

I tried to dig in your code bit but not sure where it fails. For this project, it has something in the right HTML bar (Featured section) which causes the script to fail. Not sure where in the code you need to ignore everything else but rewards.

Always returns this error. Attempted to convert to Python3 and the error persisted. Attempted to add a user-agent and the error persisted.

How about adding the possibility to choose cheaper pledges when they become available?
Like I have pledged for something worth 80 $, but there are two more possibilities to choose a cheaper "early bird" pledge. If one cheaper pledge is available, the script changes my pledge to the cheaper one. If the cheapest one is available the script changes to the cheapest one, but if a more expensive one after the cheapest is available, the script should not change to the more expensive one.
Nice would be to be able to add pledges to a list (order from cheapest to most expensive), from which the script can check whether to change the pledge to the cheaper one or not.