How to make a site for price comparison

Hi,

I am interest to create a site for product price compare like kellko can you help me what I need to do that ?
Also can you suggest me script to do the above ?

Thanks

 

I don't think there is any scripts available for this.

The easiest thing to do is to contact all shops you would like to compare and ask them provide a product- and price-file in some (standard) format. You could then download it from their server once a day or so.

Otherwise you need to learn (or hire someone who knows) regular expressions. Unfortunately the regular expressions needs to be modified for each shop so it is quite a complex task..

 

Thanks for your help

 

did see this the other day.. i think you would still have to contact the shops to get access to their data..

http://www.kaonsoftwares.com/price-comparison-script.html

 

There are several ways of doing what you want, the quickest and easiest is to just use kelkoo's affiliate scheme where they provide a script through one of their affiliate network partners like OMG or such. You benefit from a part payment per click of what they get but it is quite strict and not as cash productive as marketing products yourself.

There are scripts available to run limited price comparison of a few hundred products or so, but when you start getting into thousands of products or in some cases even to start you will see the limitations of such cheap scripts. you can find scripts like that to get you started at www.pricetapestry.com made by a guy called d morrison ( i think). Less than 50 pounds i think for basic php scripts

Seperately we make software that will allow you to run a full scale service like kelkoo, pricerunner etc but then you are talking quite a few thousand pounds.

The thing you have to remember is it might sound easy but the likes of kelkoo, pricerunner and shopping.com are multi million pound businesses, you are very unlikely to find software of their level for a few pounds and some idle tinkering.

Hope that helps a little

 

Your answer help me a lot Thanks all for your replies

 

Hi,
I'm also interested in creating price comparison site. The all data will be in our Database. No need to connect shops servers.
Is there a way to create price comparison site using magento??
Or maybe there are any else e-commese platforms which I can use??

Waiting for response,
thanks.

 

You could use this a script based affiliate program created by smartshoppingads, which is owned by United Internet AG (and owns 1&1). This affiliate scheme is based on a click-per-search and is meant to be pretty good.

 

I tried magento, and it works good. All I needed to do was adding several custom modules.

 

I saw this, too but can't vouch for it, come back and let us know if you use it or not.

 

you can create a price comparison website using an api from one of the popular price comparison websites such as shopzilla, price grabber and others, some of these offer complete platform for you ready to go.

 

if you are looking to build a price comparison site, the easiest way is by using the wordpress price comparison script: http://www.wppricecomparison.com

 

why WP, not magento???

 

because magento is a shopping cart. not a price comparison website.

 

But Magento CAN be used for it ;-) It will be an expensive job to do it. And there is a few modules out there to amazon and such to load products in with

 

dont be rediculous.... Magento is a SHOPPING CART. its neither an affiliate frontend, not a price comparison script. Magento is a fantastic shopping cart, but nothing else.

 

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See my post

It works fine. And all I needed was adding 2-3 custom modules. And it became very nice price comparison site.

 

I just built a price comparison website and a hot deals website. Both are built by me from scratch and rely on product files I am getting from affiliate networks. What I can say is that it's not an easy job to build such a web site. I've been working on this for months. At the moment, I have over one million products in my database (the price comparison one) and it takes about 3 hours to update all the products based on the files I receive on a daily base from the affiliate networks I'm affiliated with. As far as I know, there isn't any truly decent script out there that would do what you need. Also, I don't believe such a website can be run by a person who doesn't have (quite solid) technical programming skills. If you'd like to take a look at my websites, just let me know. I didn't post it here for obvious reasons.

 

Please contact me with the sites you have created, very interested in seeing what you have developed and trying to implement into my site as well.

 

The price comparison site I've made is a local project (by local I mean based on my countries shops and products). It's allready on-line, but still is in process of filling with products. I used magento, but for prices I've created my own models. By that I've lost some Magento functionalities, for example taxes, special prices, etc. (But I believe my site even doesn't need that). And site works good and is satisfying all needes we have for now. You can see site here http://www.smartbuy.am/