It is a Web Scrapping application that takes in user preferred product from Flipkart to track it's price. This application is build on top of Django.
- It will keep us updated with change in price in Flipkart Products.
- It will show us the amount of price difference for each and every products in Flipkart.
- BeautifulSoup4: I have used this web scrapping library, because this is a beginner-friendly web scrapping project and BS4 is easy to learn and master in short amount of time.
- Django Framework: As this project is built using Python language, I choose Django because it is fast, easy to learn, secure and very versatile.
- Clone the project
git clone https://github.com/zengboi/FlipCart-Tracker.git
- Go to the project directory
cd FlipCart-Tracker
- Install dependencies
python3 -m venv your_virtualenv_name
source ./your_virtualenv_name/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
- Start the Database Mirgation
python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate
- Create a Admin User
python manage.py createsuperuser
- Start the project
python manage.py runserver
The app will run on your (localhost:8000)
What did you learn while building this project?
- Web Scrapping using BeautifulSoup4
- Use of Class-Based DeleteView.
- POST-REDIRECT-GET Pattern.
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