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[–] witten@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Made a product search script that sorts eBay listings based on total per unit price (including shipping). Good for finding the cheapest multi-pack, lot, bundle, etc. by unit. Using Qwen 3 4B and feeding it a single listing at a time to parse.

[–] yo_scottie_oh@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Do you self host or use one of the Freeβ„’ cloud services?

[–] witten@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Self host. Just Ollama running on a machine without a GPU! I never said it was fast. :D

[–] yo_scottie_oh@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So you'll copy and paste the URL for an eBay listing and it'll go out and fetch the price and quantity and calculate unit price?

[–] witten@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Close.. I'll download the HTML for an eBay search results page, and then a script splits it up into separate entries and feeds each listing's HTML chunk to the LLM. I don't bother with individual listing pages. (This falls down on some edge cases like listings that include multiple variants via a pull-down selection only found on the individual listing page. Maybe a future area of improvement.)