📅 2024-08-29 — Session: Web Scraping and Price Analysis

🕒 00:00–00:45
🏷️ Labels: Web Scraping, Price Tracking, Data Analysis, Scrapy, Python
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The primary goal of this session was to enhance web scraping capabilities and set up systems for price tracking and analysis.

Key Activities

  • Debugged a Scrapy spider to ensure correct processing of ProductoCategorizadoItem.
  • Reviewed and improved the codebase of a Scrapy project, focusing on best practices and performance enhancements.
  • Set up a Python web scraper to collect phone price data from MercadoLibre and Amazon, including incremental CSV writing to prevent data loss.
  • Established a plan for a price tracking system aimed at identifying trends for bulk buying opportunities.
  • Analyzed datasets to find phones with the best price-quality ratios, including data collection, cleaning, and visualization.

Achievements

  • Successfully debugged and improved the performance and reliability of the Scrapy spiders.
  • Completed the setup of a robust web scraping system for phone prices.
  • Developed a structured plan for ongoing price tracking and analysis.

Pending Tasks

  • Implement the automated price tracking system.
  • Continue refining data analysis techniques for better insights.

Labels

web scraping, price tracking, data analysis, Scrapy, [[Python]]