i would like to design a website that will crawl 100 other websites and post the current prices in ascending order of the same model yamaha baby grand piano. the prices on these sites will appear in simple HTML. the question is will i have to modify my algorithm for every single site, or is there some kind of artificially intelligent tool that can find the product on the given site and give my its price?
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in all practicality, you will have to modify it for every site. I worked for a company years ago that built a "meta search engine" that would do kinda what you're talking about. they used regular expressions to parse results on other sites. they had a regular expression for every site they supported (so: "you will have to modify it for every site")
Nick Franceschina
2009-08-08 00:18:42
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Why would anyone want a baby grand? Get a parlor grand, or an upright. A baby grand is just stupid.
smcameron
2009-08-08 00:27:52