Gundam Search

Team #920021080 Hyunjong Lee20021085 Jaesoek Jang

Objective

• There are lots of websites that sell “Gundam” plastic model.

• To make an application that compares the price of items

Gundam?

• Kind of Robot looks like…• It appears in Japanese Robot

animation series “mobile suit Gundam”

We wrapped…

System architecture

Search Result

Thread1(Gundamshop)

Thread3(Gundaminside)

Thread4(Gundamart)

Thread2(Gunplaworld)

Google web service

4. Update any items found

3. Send query(Keyword)

Data

Main Application

1. Put Keyword

2. Create result5. Based on title of each item, send query to Google

Design goal

• We did not apply client/server architecture to our project because…– Wrapper-based– Long latency problem

• Just an App that shows result immediately whenever new item is found

What kind of information should we gather?

• Website name• Product name• Link of product page• Link of thumbnail image• Category of product• Product code //used in price

comparison!• Product price• Google search result

Utilization of Web Services

• Google Web service• Send product name as query to

Google, to get information related to given item that was found in our websites.

• Google’s result may include:– links of other websites we did not wrap – comments on the given item

Evaluation

• Pros– search Gundam plastic model easily– choose the cheapest one easily

• Cons– If the layout of some website changed, malfu

ndction– there are still many parsing exception

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