george-swift / scraper

Web scraper designed to fetch retail prices from an online luxury store.

Ruby Capstone Project: Build a Scraper

The scraper is developed in Ruby and uses the Nokogiri gem to collect men's designer sneakers, details, and/or season information, and prices from my favorite online retail platform - Farfetch

Built With

• Ruby

Getting Started

• Open your terminal - Windows: Win + R, then type cmd | Mac: Command + space, then type Terminal
• Navigate to a directory of your choosing using the cd command
• Run this command in your OS terminal: git clone https://github.com/george-swift/scraper.git to get a copy of the project.
• Navigate to the project's directory using the cd command.
• Execute ./bin/search.rb or cd bin from the project's root folder and ruby search.rb

Prerequisites

• Internet connection
• Ruby installed in your OS
• The Nokogiri ruby gem installed in your OS. To install, simply type gem install nokogiri in the terminal or bundle install from the project directory.
• The HTTParty ruby library installed in your OS. To install this gem type bundle install in the terminal from the project directory.

Testing

• Open the terminal on the project root folder
• Execute rspec --format doc to run all the test cases OR
• Run bundle install to install the required gems
• Execute bundle exec rspec to run all the test cases

👤 Author

• GitHub: @george-swift
• Twitter: @__pragmaticdev

🤝 Contributing

Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome!

Show your support

Kindly give a ⭐️ if you like this project!

Acknowledgments

Hat tip to the following:

• Farfetch for catalog of products
• Nokogiri documentation for guidelines on installation
• Rubygems.org documentation for guidelines on gems installation
• Medium for additional think pieces

📝 License

This project is MIT licensed.