Scrappy is user friendly. It does all the hard work of opening link after link and providing the name,price,reviews,stock availability and item link so you can check on the items you like as you wish. It provides advantage to the user during huge sales, it saves a lot of time. Comes in handy to people who are lazy to open the web and search for an item.
The project was not that hard to build as it is just a webscraping project. One of the challege we ran into was making the deals of the day provide output. The page had the same <a> tag for each item in the page, this led the program pick all the <a> tags outside the deal of the day box too. The id were different so we couldn't use the id to scrape neither the class of the <a> obj.
We used the try except and finally method to make it work. We are very new in the field of CSE, the project is not really representable for a hackathon. We joined for the sake of gaining experience and knowledge which we did, hoping to come back to the same hackathon stronger next year.
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