hulihanapplications
Generic Product Fallback Info
When someone tries to fetch product information from a URL that isn't supported by a model, fletcher should return generic fallback information composed of the following:
- name: based on page title (
metatag) - price: search page for first
$...string - images: all images on page.
wouldn't all images on the page be a little excessive? also what about other currencies? GBP, EUR, YEN....? cross selling or related items may be higher in the source then the actual item/product price.
agreed with the title, this should be implemented, maybe fall back to meta description of exists?
Agreed, it's hard to pull relevant images, so that may be out. Pulling description from meta is a good idea.
As far as price goes, we could also check for standardized meta information, like the the presence of Open Graph Protocol tags, etc. Just a thought.
Have you played with the amazon wishlist bookmarklet? They're able to parse an arbitrary price pretty accurately.
Agreed on opg, brilliant idea. amazon are possibly passing things into a readability and then scanning for currency symbols?
@dhulihan @hulihanapplications Any updates on this ticket? This would be invaluable given the prolificity of stores today?
