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Ebay Search Tool

By Greer Page ([email protected]) & Jack Taylor ([email protected])

Use:
    - Run ebay_search.py
    - Enter the item youre searching for, be as specific as possible
    - Enter your budget, only items below your budget will be returned
        - Items that have a ranged price are sorted based on the average price
    - Enter the filters of your choice

Results: 
    - Results are filtered based on your budget, filters, and seller ratings
        - The highest rated seller's items are shown first
    - Results are displayed with the name of the item and a link to the item's page
        - Depending on your terminal, this link can be clicked or pasted into a browser window
    - If no item is found to meet the given criteria, the program will not return an item. 
    - To view the next item hit enter
    - To stop seeing items hit q

Testing:
    - We tested by inputing things we would really buy on Ebay
    - We followed the link provided by the program to see if it met our filters and budget
    - We looked at each result to see that seller reviews descend from highest rated seller to lowest

Requirements: 
    - This program requires the python requests and beautifulsoup4 libraries 
    - These can be installed by running pip install -r requirements.txt

Roles:
    Jack:
        - I wrote all of the input handling, including input validation for the 
            - item
            - budget
            - characteristics of letters
        - I also formatted the item for searching in the eBay url.
    Greer: 
        - I handled most of the backend work
        - I wrote the search and sort functions as well as the Item class to parse the raw html into useful python