Hi , <br>Great Reference ,<br>I especially like the idea of playing sample music clips , one of amazon services i myself like a lot.<br>But i am wondering though that how would I be able to search such a server faster than Amazon or other services.<br>
Also what if such a server is down. <br>Also screen scraping is a good idea if we can deliver really cool things like sample music and reading reviews etc.... Otherwise I think it would too much of a overhead<br><br> <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Simon Pickering <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:S.G.Pickering@bath.ac.uk">S.G.Pickering@bath.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Amit,<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> The other part would be using the webservices API of amazon<br>
> and Librarything to develop the Shopping Assistant .<br>
<br>
</div><snip><br>
<div class="im"><br>
> 2. For the webservices part the major limiting factor would<br>
> be Internet Bandwidth and thus their is no point of using a<br>
> low level language so i will be using python for this .<br>
<br>
</div>I guess you're talking about time taken here rather than data required<br>
when you mention bandwidth. I don't know much about the services you<br>
mention, but if it turns out that these are not sufficient and scraping<br>
of actual human-readable webpages is required, I'd suggest that using a<br>
server to perform the web scraping as requested by the app might be<br>
worthwhile. This is the technique used in the Google Android competition<br>
winning Android Scan (now renamed to something else) and was my initial<br>
inspiration. Scroll right to the bottom of this page:<br>
<a href="http://scan.jsharkey.org/" target="_blank">http://scan.jsharkey.org/</a>. I note that his backend server is written in<br>
Python too.<br>
<br>
Good luck with the project!<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
<br>
Simon<br>
<br>
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