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Does anybody know if there's an app that can:

  1. Take a list of items, and sort them by price. (i.e. an Amazon list)
  2. Then auto-magically determine the highest quantity of items you can purchase on that list within a given budget?
  3. (Optional) is able to import live data via an amazon wishlist or some other database to ensure prices are accurate & up to date.

Been Googling for days but all I get are personal finance and budget apps that while useful aren't at all what I'm looking for. I'm imagining the logic for such an app/spreadsheet calculator would be something like: "Sort items from least to most expensive, then collate upwards to the set budget limit in order to ensure the maximum amount of items are selected while still remaining within the set limit."

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"Take a list"
What do you mean by that? You enter the list yourself or it gets automatically parsed from somewhere?

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5 minutes ago, JuztBe said:

"Take a list"
What do you mean by that? You enter the list yourself or it gets automatically parsed from somewhere?

Either or. Automatic importing would make life easier but entering things manually isn't too terrible. Though considering I'm trying to parse a list of a couple of hundred items...s'why I'm seeking an app or the like to do the sorting and math for me rather than spending a few hours/days sorting through things manually.

 

For example, you have a list of 10 items:

$7.99
$8.90
$49.68
$11.74
$20.47
$29.98
$39.88
$22.00
$23.26
$43.49

 

It would sort those by price, then list the number of items you could reasonably purchase given a budget of $100 USD. Highlighting them or listing the ones that fall within that range.

 

Then you could adjust the output list, say you favor one item over another that it didn't list, and it'd re-calculate to tell you what else you could still get within a budget.

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Not sure if excel would work. Maybe it's possible with it. But that would be really easy to make yourself if you know any coding with basically anything. Parsing would be harder, but very much possible. 

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