• KevonLooney
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    5 months ago

    Do some standard web scraping for prices.

    Do you understand how hard that is? Most websites do not just let you scrape them entirely because they think you’re a competitor. Web scraping involves staying one step ahead of each site. You might as well just pick a site and buy most things there.

    Plus you can just have everything delivered. It’s easier and you can get access to sales.

    • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
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      5 months ago

      Yes, I do indeed, for example the AutoTL;DR bot you might have seen around Lemmy (that does web scraping) is mine.

      Sure, you can do an entirely different thing than I was talking about, but then you’re replying to something entirely else, aren’t you? This was a reaction to a post in the OP which doesn’t talk about getting everything delivered.

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      5 months ago

      There are 3rd party APIs that handle scraping… Eg Red circle API. Problem is they don’t really have produce and everything up to date.