Inspiration
In a progressively environmental society, people emphasize the importance of sustainability. However, for the average shopper, it is difficult to know which products are actually sustainable. Who has the time to research everything on their list, or even understand what makes a product sustainable?
What it does
This online resource will allow a person to search for the items they want to buy and instantly see which ones are sustainable and why. A shopping list is then created which automatically categorizes each item.
How we built it
We originally started with Java, and JavaFX, but soon moved over to a PHP server with HTML/JS. The API has no search, so we kept the Java HTML parser we created. We run a bash command to call the java file from PHP, which is Ajaxed to from our JS. We use jQuery Mobile for the interface.
Challenges we ran into
NO SEARCH WITH THE API!!!!!!! We had to build a Java class that searches based on a keyword, parses the TCIN from the website's thumbnail images. We could then use those in API calls.
Accomplishments that we are proud of
How we hacked different distinct pieces together.
What we learned
A little bit about JavaFX, some web language skills.
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