Gift Giver

 Our team was inspired by constant problems with gift giving as we are unable to provide the best gift to our loved ones. Even recent studies have shown that people feel that expensive gifts are able to better convey their feelings toward friends and family members. However, that is not true. Therefore, we thought, as a team, how could we find an affordable gift that could best convey our feelings to our friends and family members. As such, we built “Gift Giver” a web-based application that would ask six question about the gift receiver then utilize those parameters to do a custom search on Ebay. The application would select the top items and return a meaningful list of suggested gifts to the user. This application was built using python, HTML, and JSON code. To initiate the application using python we passed the parameters into the Ebay URL then asked the Ebay API to return a response. Ebay returned a JSON file, which we used to run a loop through and find the title of each item. Then arranged the items into an array, so users could easily view the items. The challenges we faced were building the search engine using python and finding the titles of the entries from the JSON file. Since the JSON file was unable to be converted so we spent a majority of time building a loop that would find the titles of the items. As a result, because of our dedicated teamwork, we were able to successfully implement the application to interact with the eBay API. We learned a how to code in python, build methods, runs loops, and more importantly, as a team, we were able to complement each other without unique skills. The future of “Gift Giver” is the implementation of more retailers and a  personalized experience when searching for gifts. We believe it is important to give gifts that matter. 

Built With

• html
• json
• python
• xml