Python web application that finds products to buy from mercari and sell on ebay
To run locally you need to run the command "python app.py" inside the flipper directory. Once the server is running, open in your browser "http://localhost:5000/"
The idea came from videos on social media platform TikTok. There were several people giving advice to flip products from across different websites. We thought about how we could streamline the process and came up with flipper.
Flipper allows you to search for items of interest. The application will then find items on ebay and mercari given that search term. It will then give the user profitable suggestions for them to decide if they will want to buy the item.
We built the app using python with flask, along with html and css. Calling the ebay api but also web scraping from both ebay and mercari.
Database and system desing, api calling, conflicting libraries, scraping permissions.
We defined a statistical analysis to decide how to prioritize what calls we made to the ebay api.
We learned how to scrape while confiding with terms of service. Learned the flask library.
We plan on refining the algorithm and expanding the websites.
- Flask
- PyMongo
- BeautifulSoup4
- Numpy
- Urlib
- Bootstrap
- Multiprocessing