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Title:      Bookfinder Readme
Author:     ZHANG Fangzhou, YUE Kun, HU Ming
Email:      [email protected]

* About
The Bookfinder is a distributed web interface for searching books simple informations on Amazon.com, Amazon.com.uk and Amazon.fr. And converting the price of each item to the Hong Kong dollars.
It is implemented in python programming language.

* Installation and Setup
1. Install all dependencies listed below.
2. Open the web service by typing: "python bookfinder_service.py".
3. Open the web server by typing: "python bookfinder.py"
4. Open the browser, and visit: "localhost:8989/search"
5. Enter a query to search.

* Dependencies
** Python(tested in 2.7)
Can be installed by the python devlopment tools "easy-install name" or "pip install name"
- bottle
- webpy
- soaplib
- lxml
- amazon-product-api

* Notes
The virtual machine provided has all the denpendicies installed.
The name of the test account is: alice.
The password of the test account is: bob.