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Textbook Information Extraction

A program that extracts textbook information from a community college's website and organizes it into an Excel sheet, so a book store owner can see what the college charges and adjust their own prices.

Before
Hundreds of clicks
Visit every class page on the college website, one by one.
After
One Excel sheet
Every textbook and price, organized and ready to scan.
Bonus
Change tracking
Compare against an older sheet to see which prices moved.

The problem

Without this program, the book store owner had to go to the college's website and click into each class to find its textbook information. Looking at every textbook for every class meant clicking hundreds of times just to reach the relevant details.

The solution

The Textbook Information Extraction program gathers it all automatically, so the owner can see every textbook at a glance. Checking a price is now a matter of looking at the Excel sheet instead of clicking through the website.

It can also compare a current sheet against an older one and highlight the differences, showing which textbook prices have changed so the owner can update their own prices to match.

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