It is a combination of requests, bs4 and flask that crawls the source and provides some descriptive details of a product. Pre-defined html template is used for displaying the content of home page i.e. best deals. Details are:
- Title
- Brand
- Price
- Emi
- Availability
- Seller's Name
- Description
- Ratings
- Image source
- Top rating
- Url (to visit)
NOTE: As the source for now is only amazon.in, so it will work only for any e-commerce product available/listed on amazon
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Make sure you have python(version>=2.7) installed in your system.
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Install the requirements.txt file.
pip install -r requirements.txt- You are ready to start. To activate flask server locally, run
python app.py
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Running the above flask command
python app.pywill provide your local flask server. (local host example: http://127.0.0.1:5000/) or something like this... -
Copy and paste the local host to your browser to visit the home page and start searching for a item.
- Path defined to search a query is as follows:
http://127.0.0.1:8000/search?query=laptops&page=1
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It requires two arguments
query&page. Query refers to the item you wanted to search for and page simply refers to desired integer. (Each page contains list of 15 items in output). Defaults setted to 1. -
Output will be displayed in JSON format. For a prettier visibility, add extension/install any JSON formattor. Recommended here.
NOTE: As the source for now is only amazon.in, so it will work only for any e-commerce product available/listed on amazon
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Complete the installation process, and visit the home page.
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It reads your query from search bar and pages from option tag.
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Parses it to a function that goes to each of the products individual urls and extract th required/available informations
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Returns all the infomation in a JSON format (limited to 15 items).
