On Apr 9, 2013, at 11:07 PM, Benjamin Fishbein wrote: >> >> You've gotten some good feedback, but I suspect you will get better >> information if you provide more information about your goals for the site. >> > > Thanks for your help, everyone. There are some specific things I want the > site to do, and I'm not sure which would be the best developing tool or > hosting for these. > The python software I developed is for selling used books. > It takes book ISBN numbers as input and returns the best prices being offered. > It uses the selenium module...I'm not sure how that would translate into a > website.
Checking the documentation [1], selenium will interact with a browser running remotely using the selenium-server. However, I don't imagine the latter option being viable if you plan to have any significant traffic. I would think a better plan is to forego the gui browser, perhaps re-writing the interaction with other sites using requests [2], a very nice way to work with HTTP. Do you need to interact with javascript on those pages? > There are many websites that offer similar book price comparisons, but mine > is different...it's user-friendly. Any volunteer at a thrift shop or library > can use it...just a series of simple directions and yes/no questions, taking > the user all the way from scanning or typing in an ISBN to dropping the > parcel off at the post office. (The local libraries I worked with more than > doubled their used-book revenues.) I want to expand this nationwide, and > bookchicken.com seems to be the way to do it. > So much of the program is simple enough. But there's two parts of the program > that I anticipate being important to what host, development tool I use: > 1. ISBNs (the books the thrift shop/ library has) being sent to various > websites and returning the data to my site to be analyzed by my program. > 2. Maneuvering through the website of the company buying the books. I don't > want to send the user off to a warehouse's site with a list of books to sell > to them. They'll still be entering their address and name, but it'll be on my > site, that I then send to the warehouse's page, get a packing slip and > shipping label from the warehouse, and give these documents to the user to > print out. > > I'm not sure if this changes anyone's ideas about which host/ developer I > should use. Please let me know. Obviously my recommendations for producing a static site missed the mark! I do think that one of the microframeworks folks have mentioned will get you up and running faster. Take care, Don [1] http://docs.seleniumhq.org/docs/03_webdriver.jsp [2] http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/quickstart/ _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
