BlackFriday-Webscrape

A web scraper that gathers cheapest black friday deals per category on multiple e-commerce sites

Estimated Scrape Time: 15 minutes
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Requirements

This project requires preferably version 86.0.4240 of Chrome browser as well as Python 3 installed on the host system.

Python Dependencies

• Selenium

WebDriver

• Chrome WebDriver
  Note: A chrome webdriver for version 86 can be found in the assets folder of this project. If you have a different version of Chrome, download the chrome webdriver for that version and replace it with the one in the assets folder.

Setup

1. Clone this project to your local system: git clone https://github.com/haelmj/BlackFriday-Webscrape.git

2. Setup Chrome Driver:

   • Include the ChromeDriver location in your PATH environment variable

3. Setup a virtual environment:

python -m venv venv

4. Activate the virtual environment: For Windows Command Line Users:

venv\Scripts\activate.bat

For bash users:

source /venv/Scripts/activate

5. Install module dependencies: pip install selenium

6. Run app:

python main.py

Development Status

• Completed