METHOD FOR COLLECTING LOWEST PRICE INFORMATION OF INTERNET SHOPPING MALLS AND METHOD FOR UPDATING PRODUCT INFORMATION BY USING COLLECTED LOWEST PRICE INFORMATION

摘要

The objective of the present invention is to update the price information of a specific product, which is provided by a price comparison site, with the lowest price by rapidly collecting product information including the price information provided by internet shopping malls. A method for collecting the lowest price information of internet shopping malls and a method for updating product information by using the collected lowest price information comprise the steps of: (A) driving a crawler to access an internet shopping mall site required to be searched, by a price comparison site service server; (B) accessing the URL of the list page of a specific product, collecting product information including price information, transmitting the collected product information to the price comparison site service server, by the crawler connected to the internet shopping mall site; (C) searching for a reference product, which is the same as a product having the collected product information, from a product information DB, by the price comparison site service server; (D) comparing the price information of the product having the collected product information with the lowest price information of the searched reference product, by the price comparison site service server; and (E) updating the lowest price information of the reference product, which is stored in the product information DB, with the collected price information of the product, by the price comparison site service server, when the price information included in the collected product information is lower than the lowest price information of the reference product stored in the product information DB.;COPYRIGHT KIPO 2016