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How to Find the Best Deals On Time with R and Mage
How To Detect The Best Deals With Web Scraping v2
Automatically finding and detecting great deals and coupons promptly can save you money and time. slickdeals.net is a community-based website where people share deals information. Slickdeals has the "deal alert" option to detect deal information automatically. However, the choice is limited. It doesn't support if you'd want customized filters like price, discount amount, or shopping site. We can quickly build a weekend project that automatically finds the best deals on time with R and Mage.
Three years ago, I wrote an article about how you can set up a local server and web-scraping shopping deals information using Raspberry Pi and Scrapy. With the new framework and tools available, I want to refresh the old version with the latest tools.
What Tools We Will Use
- R. The previous version was done in Python. I started to love writing in R for my personal data-related project, and writing in R is fun this time.
