📅 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
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. - 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]]