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Jul 06.2007

Hi,

Sorry if this is in the wrong forum but I’m not really sure where else to post this.

I am wanting to design a price comparison website. I know that I have to use some kind of agent technology but that’s as far as I have got at the minute.

I am planning to make this with JSP.

Can anyone explain more about agents and what I should use to make such a site? Also, any recommended reading?

Thanks!

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@frank001Jul 07.2007 — There is a great tool available from Kapow which allows you to set up agents (or robots) to retrieve data automatically from other sites and load it into a database:

http://www.kapowtech.com/products_data.html

Another option is to outsource the scraping part of the design so you just get the feed as an xml file or via web service. There is a Chinese price comparison site at www.12rmb.com which I am involved with - which has developed its own custom scraping system -, which can help you with this.
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@marshall1Feb 23.2010 — hi Frank:

do you do work setting up price comparison websites? If so, I have a simple one I'm looking to set up. Pls contact me

Marshall
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@frank001Feb 24.2010 — Yes I help set up price comparison sites or can license the framework if you like. Please contact me via the contact us form on PriceMe our price comparison site: http://www.priceme.co.nz/About/contactUs.aspx
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@mishakrunicSep 29.2011 — You may want to check price detection tool - Price2Spy

It uses proprietary scraping mechanism to detect price changes, which are followed by automatic email alerts.
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