Reindeer

Inspiration

Trying to find cheap nice holidays manually

What it does

Web scrapes singular deal websites and combines them into specific offers. Select offers based on provided details (city, budget, trip duration, etc.). Accepts multiple currencies, such as USD or GBP and returns estimated cost in Dollars.

Challenges we ran into

Connecting frontend with backend, communication between python and javascript applications, optimizing web scraping.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Gathering a significant amount of data and interacting with it. Developing a python API for managing json datasets with Repository Design Pattern.

What we learned

Combining web and data analysis technologies within one application (calling python scripts by JS script and interpreting the output), cooperating remotely., teamwork, delegating tasks.

What's next for Reindeer

Adding more websites for data collection, optimizing for SEO, adding sharing buttons, more currencies, adding seasonal changes in prices to the data model.

Built With

• express.js
• javascript
• node.js
• pandas
• python
• react
• selenium-(for-scraping)
• ui