Would a price monitoring project that implements a web scraping API be frowned upon to potential hiring managers? /u/CletussDiabetuss CSCQ protests reddit

Hi everyone,

For a little context, I’m a junior CS student that’s struggling to find an internship. I want to add a new project to my portfolio to attempt to make myself more marketable.

I wanted a project that would have real world benefits, and came up with the idea of making a “buy one get one free” offer monitor, for a very popular grocery store in my State.

This store doesn’t have an API, nor does it provide any way to notify people of when a particular product has this special, so the only way I can think of obtaining the information I need is via web scraping.

I’ve started writing the project using Puppeteer and so far everything is working out well.

However, I’ve had to implement some counter-bot detection methods in order for the script to work, and this got me thinking as to whether this project would be considered unethical to potential hiring managers.

Thanks.

Hi everyone,

For a little context, I’m a junior CS student that’s struggling to find an internship. I want to add a new project to my portfolio to attempt to make myself more marketable.

I wanted a project that would have real world benefits, and came up with the idea of making a “buy one get one free” offer monitor, for a very popular grocery store in my State.

This store doesn’t have an API, nor does it provide any way to notify people of when a particular product has this special, so the only way I can think of obtaining the information I need is via web scraping.

I’ve started writing the project using Puppeteer and so far everything is working out well.

However, I’ve had to implement some counter-bot detection methods in order for the script to work, and this got me thinking as to whether this project would be considered unethical to potential hiring managers.

Thanks.