Hi,
My name is Richard and I am from New Zealand. Please check my most recent feedback, where I did a similar web scraping job and the employer immediately hired me on to continue on other aspects of the project.
I also have great front-end skills as well, mainly using HTML5 and all-device compatible styles nowadays.
My proposal:
I will be using PHP
You will need a web server, but I will demo on mine
Either
(1) The web server supports CRON to continue in the background for large lists; or
(2) You will keep the browser open the entire time to keep the scraping progressing until file is ready
Data will be stored in a MySQL database
There will be 2 tabs - Upload and View
Upload
- Allows you to choose and upload a file. Each line has a UPC and nothing else, max 1000 lines.
- Every new upload resets the data stored (?)
View
- Shows stored data in a table, about 100 rows at a time
- You can click on any table column heading to sort by that field
- There will also be a button to download the data, which will pop-up a list of all columns and checkbox next to each to include/exclude
I have set up the milestone such that I will finish all the work, and you can check that you are happy. You release the first milestone and I give you all the code. Then you release the balance. I hope this arrangement suits.
Happy to discuss - send me a message.
Regards,
Richard