WalmartScraper module

class WalmartScraper.WalmartScraper(url)

Bases: object

This is the Scraper for Walmart. Takes in product url as input upon object creation. Method ‘job’ prints progress while method ‘check_stock’ obtains stock info and a string indicating cost of the product.

Walmart pages can have stock info in different ways. Following are the possible cases, interpretations, and return values of each case.

Case	Interpretation	Scraper return value
Add to Cart	Product is in stock	In Stock
Out of Stock	Product is out of stock	Out of Stock

check_stock_price(url)

Obtains stock information from the given url.

Parameters

url – URL of the product

Returns

a string indicating the stock information and a string indicating cost of the product

job()

Prints the progress, and delegates the task to ‘check_stock’.

Returns

a string indicating the stock information and a string indicating cost of the product