Hi Srimanta,
In order to parse the prices from the sites you will need to know their
format. This would likely require you to create a custom parsing template
for each store you wanted to spider. You could send out a spider to build
the list of competitor sites initially (or just use the search engines),
but the parsing would need to be tweaked for each store, I imagine.
Then once you had a parsing template for each store you want to compare
prices, you could schedule it to run once a day to get the new pricing.
Brook
At 01:19 PM 1/20/03 -0800, you wrote:
Hello Forum.
I have been askedby an Internet Retailer (Computer products) to develop a
template that would accomplish the following:
1. Search several URL's /Websites (those of competing internet retrailers)
(Upto 20) and grab info on pricing, models and stock.on consumer items eg
cameras, laptops etc.on a daily basis.
2. Update my clients database so that its prices are the lowest. (provided
my clients sp is not less than pp)
Well.. Part 2 is easy.
However I am not sure how to implement Part 1. I have not done Search Engine
stuff before except for queries that
search databases.
Can someone please guide me in the right direction.
Any help would be much appreciated...
Kind Regards,
Srimanta
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