1. One Click Textbooks
CSE 454
By Mark, Nick, and Ken

2. Aspiration
Slick, one-stop search website for buying textbooks for UW classes at cheapest prices
Include shipping price and tax
Eliminate or add books on the fly
Include images of all books returned
Link to UW to verify books returned
Links to carts full of needed books

3. Reality
Working one-stop search website for buying textbooks for UW classes at cheapest prices
New or Used search
Includes shipping price
Eliminates duplicate books
Links to cart from supplier

4. Distribution of Work Mark: Nick: Ken:
Wrote crawler combining information from UW and the UW bookstore’s website
Used to populate SQL database
Nick:
Used the web APIs to query Amazon, Ebay, Half.com
Web front page and results page and redirects frame
Ken:
Sent result of database query to servlet
Converted java to Tomcat

5. Class Source

6. Sample Page

7. Regex Grabs Tags

8. ISBN Source

9. Intermediate Results

10. Results

11. Database

12. Open APIs

13. Finding Shipping

14. Front End
Connects Everything Together.

15. Surprises UW Bookstore displays ISBN as image
Bookstore doesn’t have complete class data
Half.com doesn’t have shopping cart API
Web APIs are not designed for intuitive use
Shipping costs complicated
Web taxes are complex
Cookies
Java doesn’t work on web servers

16. TomCat

17. Lessons Learned Writing a crawler
Emulating a browser with post requests
How to use open APIs
Javascript
Php
Having a well written plan is crucial
New web technologies – Tomcat
Whitespace

18. Experiments and Testing
Subjects were given website address and told to find books for next quarter
Subjects found books faster than their traditional methods, and still much cheaper than the UW bookstore
Subjects found several points confusing, so we improved the UI and provided instructions
Further testing showed satisfaction with product for classes that UW bookstore listed

19. Demo
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