Banana Search

Inspiration

I really like working with databases and wanted to explore vector search. I also like to shop at Banana!

What it does

Look up

How we built it

Scrape for items/prices/pictures from Banana Republic website Persist to Mongo Perform match / vector search queries on Mongo Plug in results into UI based on streamlit in Python

Challenges we ran into

Using streamlit and web-scraping for the first time

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Creating an end-to-end app with back-end and front-end outside of work/school in such a short amount of time is a great accomplishment

What we learned

How to effectively manage our time when creating an app from the ground-up. How to effectively squash bugs and work as a team

What's next for Banana Search

Incorporating other shopping sites like H&M, Uniqlo, American Eagle, etc.

Built With

• beautiful-soup
• mongodb
• python
• streamlit