bini-i / ebay-Scraper

This project is a scraper for products on ebay, with auction ending in less than 24hrs. Built with Ruby, HTML, CSS.

Ebay Scraper

This project is a scraper for products on ebay, with auction ending in less than 24hrs

The project uses open-uri to open http request to a customized ebay web address and creats a Nokogiri object based on the HTML parsed from the address.

• also fetches more HTML by updating the page number query string.
• once done with fetching, serves a search result page with ebay products filtered to have auction ending in less than 24hrs.

Built With

• Ruby
• Sinatra
• HTML5
• Sass
• bootstrap

Live Demo

Live Demo Link

How to use thie repo?

option 1 (using the live site)

• step:1 go to the link below

https://bayhunt.herokuapp.com/

• step:2 you will be presented with a page that looks like this

• step:3 type the product you want to search in the input field, select an optional page size for scraping and click on the search button

• step:4 your result will be presented as shown below

option 2 (run on local machine)

To get a local copy up and running follow these simple example steps.

Prerequisites

• ruby
• nokogiri
• sinatra

Install

gem install ruby 

gem install nokogiri

gem install sinatra

Setup

• clone the repository, and open the repo in terminal
• run bundler to get all the necessary gems

bundle install

• start the webserver using rackup

rackup -p 4567

Usage

• open a browser, and navigate to

http://localhost:4568/

• follow the steps in option 1 starting from step 2

Tests

• You can run the tests provided under spec/scraper_spec.rb by running the following command on the root path of the repo.

rspec

Authors

👤 Binyam Hailemeskel

• GitHub: @bini-i
• Twitter: @binyamshewa
• LinkedIn: binyam hailemeskel

🤝 Contributing

Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome!

Show your support

Give a ⭐️ if you like this project!

Acknowledgments

• ebay
• Nokogiri

📝 License

This project is MIT licensed.