WebCountry

Table of Contents

1. About
   • Built With
2. Getting Started
   • Prerequisites
   • Installation
3. Usage
4. Roadmap
5. Contact

About

WebCountry is a desktop/mobile friendly app utilizing React and Express that enables users to track product info from Backcountry.com. Using the Puppeteer library, the application scrapes the page for up-to-date information every 12 hours as a background service. The user may visualize the changes over time in a line graph if enough data is collected.

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Getting Started

Instructions to setup WebCountry on your local machine below.

Prerequisites

npm install npm@latest -g 

Installation

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/stevkim/scraper/

2. Install NPM packages

   npm install

3. Enter your ENV varaibles into a .env file

    DB = (your database name)
    USERNAME = (your database user)
    PASSWORD = (your database password)
    HOST = (your database host)

4. Run build command.

   npm run build

5. Run in production environment

   npm run start

Usage

WebCountry is run on the designated port and opens a webpage as soon as the npm start command is utilized. It can also be accessed utilizing localhost:3000 directly in the browser.

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Roadmap

• Designing the App
• Build the Backend & the Scraping service
• Build the Frontend & integrate with the Backend
• Refactor and optimize code
• Deploy on AWS

Contact

Steven Kim Linkedin | GitHub

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