Get average price of sold items from Ebay

ebay_scraper.py

import sys
import requests
import os
import re
from urllib.request import urlopen
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

# changed script from 
# https://www.reddit.com/r/declutter/comments/j6ts24/python_script_to_calculate_average_sell_price_of/

# Install Python 3.x from https://www.python.org/downloads/
# open cmd.exe with Administrator rights
# > pip3 install beautifulsoup4

# Go to Ebay
# Search for your item.
# Click "Advanced",and check the "Sold" box  to only get sold items
# Copy the URL

# Open Command Prompt/Terminal (cmd.exe on Windows)
# Go to the folder where this script is saved. 
# Example
# > cd C:\Downloads
# Type in 
# > python ebay_scraper.py
# Paste in your URL when it asks for it

url = input("Enter Ebay URL: ")

# go to URL
r = requests.get(url)


# check for <Response 200> 
""" if str(r) != '<Response [200]>':
    print("Problem: ", r)
else: 
    print("Connection Successful - Received <Response [200]>") """


# parse content through BeautifulSoup   
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content, 'lxml')

# Write soup to text file so you can check it if something goes wrong
# with open('soupfile.txt', "w") as f:
#   f.write(str(soup))
#   f.close()

# scrape class_="bidsold" from search page 
prices = []

for price in soup.find_all("span", class_="bold bidsold"):
    # print(type(price.text), price.text) 
    if "Trending at" not in price.text:
        if "to" not in price.text:
            clean_price = price.text.strip()
            prices.append(clean_price)
            # print(clean_price)

# determine average sold price of item 
avg_price = []

# the currency is whatever non-digits come before the digit in the price
firstprice = prices[0]
currency = re.search('^\D+', firstprice).group(0)
# print("Currency  is: " + str(currency))

for p in prices: 
    # Strip currency, replace , with . (for EUR etc)
    p = p.strip(str(currency))
    p = p.replace(',', '.')
    fprice = float(p)

    avg_price.append(fprice)

average_price = sum(avg_price) / len(avg_price)

print( "The average price is " + currency + str(round(average_price, 2)))