• @KevonLooney@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    15 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_SageA
      link
      English
      15 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.

    • @brlemworld@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      15 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.