Slash
Slash was a command line tool that scrapes the most popular e-commerce websites to get the best deals on the searched items across these websites.
We transformed it into a Web App to make it easier, more user-friendly and visually appealing.
I worked with Alex Snezkho, Shikha Nair, Steven Jones, and Tanya Chu on building this web app for Project 3 of our Software Engineering class (CSC 510).
For this project, I worked on extracting the product images from Amazon.com, Walmart.com and Etsy.com for the product desired by a user. I did this by inspecting the search pages on these websites to find the image being displayed and using in-built functions to find their source URLs and parse that along with other information being passed on to the front-end. Given the way the search algorithms are set-up on these e-commerce platforms, it's common to see products related to the product you're looking for instead of the product itself. Scraping and displaying these images in the search screen will allow users to open only those links relevant to them!
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