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Joyson
Joyson

Reputation: 1653

redirect user to a particular page in web view

I am creating a app in android that scans barcode and retrieves the information from my database.It works fine but now i want to integrate it with flipkart database.Or redirect them to flipkart page of that product.But how do i access the flipkart database. Say i scanned a book of android , now i would want to redirect my user to specific page on flipkart.Any help would be appreciated...thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 656

Answers (3)

Atul O Holic
Atul O Holic

Reputation: 6792

For Junglee I tried and what I found is the way you can search items using a URL, http://www.junglee.com/mn/search/junglee/ref=nav_sb_noss?url=node%3D792284031&field-keywords=

so, if your search product is iphone (not the best example for android developers) pass it as a string to this URL http://www.junglee.com/mn/search/junglee/ref=nav_sb_noss?url=node%3D792284031&field-keywords=iphone

Upvotes: 0

Romin
Romin

Reputation: 8806

The best approach in today's times is to use a public API that is exposed by Flipkart. Given that Flipkart has not done that, there is not going to be an easy way to get access to that information.

Web Crawlers exist, but in almost all cases, you will end up violating the terms and conditions and/or any acceptable rate limits. Even though you may come up with a web crawler solution, chances are that it will break sooner or later, if there are internal page changes, which will make you again write new logic. In summary, these are flaky solutions and not recommended, though in the short term, it might look like it works.

Whether it is Flipkart or anyone else, as mentioned above, a public API is the correct integration mechanism. The API would clearly define:

  1. What the functionality is i.e. API methods
  2. The Data Formats for REquest/REsponse
  3. Acceptable Rate Limits for Free usage
  4. Paid API charges for higher quota limits

P.S: Flipkart most likely would even have a private API that they use but just that it is not exposed to the outside world.

Upvotes: 1

eternalmatt
eternalmatt

Reputation: 3564

It's best to ask flipkart if they have a way to easily do this, and more importantly if its within their terms & conditions (so you don't break any laws).

Looking at their website, it looks like you can do http://www.flipkart.com/search/a/all?query=something and it appears to work for ISBN barcodes as well (try to replace something with 0671737635 in that query).

Upvotes: 1

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