Generic Product Fallback Info

[dhulihan]

When someone tries to fetch product information from a URL that isn't supported by a model, fletcher should return generic fallback information composed of the following:

• name: based on page title (meta tag)
• price: search page for first $... string
• images: all images on page.

[davidcollom]

wouldn't all images on the page be a little excessive? also what about other currencies? GBP, EUR, YEN....? cross selling or related items may be higher in the source then the actual item/product price.

agreed with the title, this should be implemented, maybe fall back to meta description of exists?

[dhulihan]

Agreed, it's hard to pull relevant images, so that may be out. Pulling description from meta is a good idea.

As far as price goes, we could also check for standardized meta information, like the the presence of Open Graph Protocol tags, etc. Just a thought.

Have you played with the amazon wishlist bookmarklet? They're able to parse an arbitrary price pretty accurately.

[davidcollom]

Agreed on opg, brilliant idea. amazon are possibly passing things into a readability and then scanning for currency symbols?

[oyeanuj]

@dhulihan @hulihanapplications Any updates on this ticket? This would be invaluable given the prolificity of stores today?