Scraping The Surface
Needs and ease of use is the basis for a lot of developments in this world, so since i had a need and i needed to do it easily i decided to start a small project that will hopefully obtain both for me.
The need : To buy games (if possible at the cheapest price)
Ease Of Use : To do it from one common location.
Before going and creating the app and wasting my most valuable time i did some research. This did not turn out very promising as there was about 1 site(www.pricecheck.co.za) that was able to do what i wanted very basically ,but they did not cover games well and almost not at all at times.Also i needed a location that covered local distributors.
So after finding nothing at all i decided to start with the app and see how far i could go. Well as of now as i write this post i have managed to scrape 3 sites successfully ,kalahari and take 2 for new games and zaps for used games. I have tried to get data from BT Games Site but have been unsuccessful so far.
While there is still a lot to do i now have to power to compare results from 3 different sites at one location.When game hunting this is absolutely useful.
Also the only results that i return are xbox 360 games its not that much different if i needed to integrate other platforms.
If you have any idea please let me know and i will integrate them as i get the time.
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Nice one my boy! Can’t wawit to BETA test it for you ;)
Hi Jameel,
Glad you found PriceCheck to be useful. It is true we, at the moment, haven’t fully optimised our Games category (http://www.pricecheck.co.za/categories/200/Games/). At the moment you can filter by format, console/platform and price.
Maybe you could give me some input with regards to what you’d like to see/what filters are most important.
Cheers,
Kevin
Hi Kevin
Thanks for taking the time to comment here ,i am not sure what i would really add to pricecheck since it pretty much has everything ,the most important thing is the location and price of the game.
Since you already have the price maybe just more data from other sites.
I will let you know if there are any other filters i can think of.
Thanks