Purpose:

This program will search for the highest offer for used textbooks from 45 book companies. The purpose is to help analyze and predict the price of future prices and to make a profit from investing in used books.

Requirements:

Python 2.7 or higher

Modules:

Selenium, helps data scraping information from websites PhantomJS, hides the browser triggered by Selenium which speeds up the data scraping process because it avoid all the css rendering BeautifulSoup, helps organize and parse the html source mysql.connector, helps interact with mysql database

BEWARE: PhantomJS takes 30 minutes to compile, therefore just use the binary executable in the same directory and include to use it

Instructions: The program will only accept 13 digits isbn. You can add it to a list and run the program to find the prices. If you want to record the data for future analysis you must set up a database.

python DataScraper.py