Inspiration
It always intrigued me to make something that could potentially help find eco-friendly alternatives to products
What it does
Essentially, if you put in the product url of only an Amazon website product, it extracts its description and gives a sustainability score to evaluated based on what is mentioned in its description (anything about materials, manufacturing, packaging and brand reputation is considered)
How we built it
Python and its modules
Challenges we ran into
I couldn't figure out how to extract any info I want of a product for any website bc of the HTML varies widely
Achievements that we're proud of
It extracts the right info but it doesn't show the right one too (UI doesn't look too bad either)
What we learned
Web scraping information and parsing and analysing html for the right information when reading code on a browser usign inspect element
What's next for Alternative Sustain Product Finder (Only For Amazon Website)?
Make it so that you can look up products directly and get their information, ranking based on sustainability score and price, try to make it work for any site, etc
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