Resell Price Checker

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Inspiration

We wanted a faster way to determine how much our things would sell for on the used market. We want to get the best we can but we're too lazy to figure out where the best place to post is.

What it does

Gets you the min, max and average resell prices for items that you either want to sell or buy from eBay, Kijiji and Craigslist. This will help you figure out where you would like to buy or sell.

How we built it

Using a Python Flask backend to host the website and beautiful soup to scrape the price data from eBay and Kijiji. Statistical data was calculated using the SciPy Python Lib

Challenges we ran into

Scraping data was sometimes inconsistent depending on what items we were looking at. Maintainability of the scraper over a longer period of time would be challenging due to possible website format changes.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We were proud of the new web development and web scraping skills we learned.

What we learned

We learned that scraping data is not as easy as it may seem and we learned how to quickly prototype a website to test our assumptions.

Built With

• beautiful-soup
• css3
• flask
• html5
• max-and-average-resell-prices-for-items-that-you-either-want-to-sell-or-buy-from-ebay
• python
• scipy