Price compare site

[EZEason]

I need some advice on how-to do a project. What I'm doing is a price compare book site for a college. I'm not sure on how to retrieve the data from other sites and populate a table. I know some sites will give me data access to their inventory, but how do I put all the data together? Into an XML file or a dataset, or something else? I have never done this before, so any suggestions would be helpful. It will be like

http://www.isbn.net

Jim

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

 

[ca8msm]

There are several ways to do this and it really depends on which sites you will be searching and what methods they provide to get their data. If they have a web service, you can query them, if they have rss feeds you can consume them, or as a last resort you can screen scrape their pages with a httpWebRequest and parse the resulting HTML.


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[EZEason]

I plan on only doing etheir query or rss feed method. What I'm trying to figure out is once I have the data, how do I combine the different sources into one dataset or xml, then populate it in a gridview. I was not very clear on my first request.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

 

[ca8msm]

One solution would be to use the Merge method of a DataSet.


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