Book Browser 📚

A website that helps you search all the major online bookstores at once for the best deals. Check it out here!

This was built with React & NodeJS.

Todo:

• Figure out how to web scrape all major online bookstores

• • BetterWorldBooks
• • AbeBooks
• • Amazon Books
• • ThriftBooks
• • Book Depository

• Process web scraped data into list of books

• Make API to process multiple different queries, not just a set one

• Sort books by price

• • Create function to sort by price
• • Make sure all prices are in USD

• Bypass CAPTCHA to scrape ThriftBooks

• Include shipping costs to book price

• Add logo of corrensponding bookstore to search results

• Make Searchbar, SearchResults, BookItem React components and appropriately use them to display data from backend

• 403 and 503 status from bookstores now no longer cause app to crash

• Make UI presentable

• Add loading icon when search query is being processed

• Test and release version 0.9.0