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lardman	2010-11-18 , 08:37
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Originally Posted by rfa

How would I implement this: http://www.ebayinc.com/content/press...20100623006637 or something like this?

I realise this is an iPhone app, so would RedLaser need to do it, or would I be able to? (If I could write the plugin for mBarcode)

Yes we could really do with a plugin that takes the EAN, and then does a lookup and search for where and what price you can buy the item. Android has had one of these for ages (and in fact was what prompted me to start writing mBarcode, unfortunately it's taken a while!). i.e. http://scan.jsharkey.org/

Now that we have working Python plugins, it should be significantly easier to do the weblookups/scraping required to do this. If there's any exsiting Python code out there that we could start with to save writing the whole thing from scratch, that would be good

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