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DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090658
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Web Scraper Revealing Trends of Target Products and New Insights in Online Shopping Websites

Author 1: Habib Ullah
Author 2: Zahid Ullah
Author 3: Shahid Maqsood
Author 4: Abdul Hafeez

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 9 Issue 6, 2018.

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Abstract: Trillions of posts from Facebook, tweets in Twitter, photos on Instagram and e-mails on exchange servers are overwhelming the Internet with big data. This necessitates the development of such tools that can detect the frequent updates and select the required information instantly. This research work aims to implement scraper software that is capable of collecting the updated information from the target products hosted in fabulous online e-commerce websites. The software is implemented using Scrapy and Django frameworks. The software is configured and evaluated across different e-commerce websites. Individual website generates a greater amount of data about the products that need to be scraped. The proposed software provides the ability to search a target product in a single consolidated place instead of searching across various websites, such as amazon.com, alibaba.com and daraz.pk. Furthermore, the scheduling mechanism enables the scraper to execute at a required frequency within a specified time frame.

Keywords: Django QuerySet (DQS); e-commerce; hamming distance algorithm (HDA); Levenshtein distance algorithm (LDA); scraper; scheduling mechanism

Habib Ullah, Zahid Ullah, Shahid Maqsood and Abdul Hafeez, “Web Scraper Revealing Trends of Target Products and New Insights in Online Shopping Websites” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 9(6), 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090658

@article{Ullah2018,
title = {Web Scraper Revealing Trends of Target Products and New Insights in Online Shopping Websites},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090658},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090658},
year = {2018},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {9},
number = {6},
author = {Habib Ullah and Zahid Ullah and Shahid Maqsood and Abdul Hafeez}
}



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