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 > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
