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Demo Backend API that is a Placeholder Search API #53

Closed hakusone closed 3 years ago

hakusone commented 3 years ago

After considering several Search API's, there are restrictions that makes it difficult for us to select which API we should implement and use. We'll probably have to put more thought into which API (or API's) to use to search for items, but in the meantime, we will make a small-scale, demo placeholder Search API so we can continue with our project.

Search API Options: Google Search API: 100 requests available a day, but some limitations on the sites we can search on. (But might be able to work around it depending which sites we choose to use...?) Amazon Product Advertising Service: Restricted to Amazon Associates only, but pretty helpful otherwise. Walmart Data Service: Free plan for 50 requests in a month. SERPApi: Aggregate search api scraper

sheetson: Quickly make an API with google sheets

Other free APIs, if we want to look for a web-scraper: https://free-for.dev/#/?id=apis-data-and-ml

hakusone commented 3 years ago

Maybe a good idea to build an api service based off of this api: https://serpapi.com/shopping-results

Will create an imitation one