EZ Shopping

Inspiration

Grocery shopping economically! This app can tell you which store(s) to choose when buying for example [bread, cheese, milk]. Also, this app comes with a google assistant extension which can take your commands and calculate which store is the cheapest and you should go. Consider you are driving or biking and your roommate or wife calls you to get grocery. You can easily talk to EZ Shopping assistant and find out which store is the cheapest.

What it does

At first, it scrapes data from a website to find out the prices of different items in different stores and saves them on MongoDB Cloud. Then for each input it gets the data and calculates the cheapest option for you.

How we built it

We built the scraper using Python (selenium + chrome) and MongoDB. The Google Assistant part is built using Javascript.

Challenges we ran into

Javascript is the worst! And google cloud debugging capabilities.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Creating a google assistant which can make the shopping process much easier and works with any smart Google device (phone, minis etc.).

What we learned

Working with MongoDB and Google Cloud (firebase).

What's next for EZ Shopping

Implementing the amount of each item you want to buy. Optimize the algorithm when you want to buy from 2+ stores.

Built With

• google-cloud
• google-firebase
• javascript
• mongodb
• python