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10/27: Began to research REST API's to act as project manager

10/20: Program reads in Search string and searches Overstock.com and Walmart, parses search page, selects first result and parses each of those pages

10/6: Researched why Amazon won't work - looked into possible solutions

9/29: Parsed Overstock.com for price and rating using exclusively JSoup. Determined that using the brand may be more difficult to extract from the HTML because it is not as widely specified like the Walmart products (Which will make it a ton of fun to compare but that's an issue for Sprint 2 and 3!!)

9/22: With the help of Professor Dobies parsed HTML to retrieve data in JSON format. Parsed the json data for price and brand using string manipulation. Will continue to try to use javax.jsoup library to parse json internally rather than use string parsing.

9/15: Researched ways of retrieving HTML code; decided on Jsoup library. Conceptualized parser: Plan to use JSoup to parse HTML code and bring back to Java in a string, which then I will parse for important information

9/8: Met with Professor Dobies Wednesday night to plan for Sprint 1. Decided to break project up into three pieces for duration of the Project: Database, Parser, Front-end. Began research into parser including calls to websites and how to access site HTML code.