Scraping Retailers: or How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love the Web

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Presented at bsideswinnipeg 2017 by

Jason Harder

Kevin Cortens

Scraping data from the Internet is an old practice, but one that is more and more popular these days. Pricerazzi scrapes pricing and product data from retailers to facilitate price matching. Unsurprisingly, retailers have a wide range of quality in their sites, apps, and systems; they have seen many questionable things ranging from simple poor practice to severe security issues. This will be a discussion on the state of retail websites in 2017. Jason currently works at Pricerazzi as Lead Software Developer, he went through the Computer Science Co-op Program at the University of Manitoba and has been working as a developer for around 8 years. He spends his spare time working on web scraping projects and fixing his house. Kevin is a computer science undergrad with a passion for learning about artificial intelligence. He spends his day as a developer for Pricerazzi dealing with the joys of web scraping.