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:moneybag: Be Kanjoos - Get an alert when your favorite products become cheaper!
http://prakhar.me/bekanjoos
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Multiple prices on a product #7

Open prakhar1989 opened 8 years ago

prakhar1989 commented 8 years ago

Guys,

We need to take a call on how do we handle product pages where multiple prices are applicable. For example, a product page for a book on Amazon has a Kindle edition, a Paperback edition and a Hardcover edition. Same for movies on Amazon. Any ideas on how to handle these cases - considering that we need to handle the same scenario while scraping the website?

vinaygaba commented 8 years ago

Interesting usecase! I think we should keep track of all 3. This might be difficult to do, but as a user, I want to keep track of all the prices for a particular product.

prakhar1989 commented 8 years ago

Ah.. sounds like a good plan. It might not be terribly hard to scrape this info from the extension / crawler, but we'll need to think about how to notify the user. If the price of each type of book, goes down by $1, we should generate just one notification rather than three - which might get a bit complicated.

vinaygaba commented 8 years ago

Itn't there a way to have a nested pricing strucutre? Like one notification for all the prices associated with a product. We might have to think about the model of the db now?

prakhar1989 commented 8 years ago

You can but you'll need to maintain that association in the backend. And it'll get really complex very quickly. Even the scheduling logic will be written in such a way to handle this complexity. The other option is that we batch all notifications to a user when we send an email. On Nov 20, 2015 1:29 AM, "Vinay Gaba" notifications@github.com wrote:

Itn't there a way to have a nested pricing strucutre? Like one notification for all the prices associated with a product. We might have to think about the model of the db now?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/prakhar1989/pricetell/issues/7#issuecomment-158294545 .