E-COMMERCE PRICES COMPARATOR USING WEB SCRAPPING

Abstract

Technology serves a lot of purposes for human being without limits of space, time, and knowledge. With the help of technology people all around the world can have what they need in easy way. One of the most common piece of technology is smartphone. It’s not uncommon for every people in the world to held at least one smartphone. The smartphone can perform many functions of computer in pocket like design, typically having Internet access, touchscreen interface and most importantly an operating system that can running a downloaded applications. Mobile application or in short apps were originally offered for general productivity and information retrieval, such as email, contacts, calendar, stock market, and weather information. However, because of the rapid growth of smartphones many business starting to develop their own apps to strive on the e-market. Because of this fast growth in technology, a lot of sellers or brand store start to jump into the e-market by through the online shop apps, and often the prices of some products is different from the one online shop to the others. Although it is not a big impact, comparing two prices from different apps takes amount of times to load because of open and closing the apps and make the smartphone lag. Thus, this thesis aims to aid a buyer to compare the price available that given by the other olshop apps in only one taps of a button.