Shoplist

A web application allows users to create their accounts, and manage their own lists to track prices of online shopping items.

Add items by simply copy and paste the url from an online shopping site, try to grab data from the site, then confirm to add the item to database.

Amazon (US), Best Buy are supported. Digital music, audio book and video are generally not supported however.

Pip install modules

Python (>=3.9) required

pip install -r requirements.txt

beautifulsoup4 (>=4.9.3)
lxml (>=4.6.5)
Flask (>=2.0.1)
gunicorn (>=20.1.0)
mysql-connector-python (>=8.0.26)

Recommended node version

nvm install 16.10
nvm use 16.10

Npm install modules

npm install

axios (>=0.26.0)
react (>=17.0.2)
react-chartjs-2 (>=3.3.0)

Compile (before launching server the first time)

npm run build

Known Issues

• Only per month price can be retrieved for some items on BestBuy

Future features

• Add search function in user item list
• Use BestBuy API

Blog post about this project

Shoplist Blog post