Texau for Product Searching
Hey, My dev tells me that all the LLMs are failing on my shopping task, that only SERPAPI works, but it seems to start at $75 a month. Here is what Perplexity says: Texau does not have direct functionality to replace SerpApi for shopping-related tasks like searching for products matching generic descriptions. SerpApi offers specialized APIs for scraping product search results from Google Shopping and other e-commerce platforms, which Texau does not provide[1][4]. Is there any workaround to make Texau do this? It's particularly timely because we are using Make for the process. The LONG VERSION: To search for buyable products matching a generic description like "5'x6' throw rug with blue wave design", you would typically need to use a dedicated e-commerce or product search API. SerpApi's Google Shopping Results API would be well-suited for this type of query, as it can scrape product listings including details like: - Product title - Price - Thumbnail image - Product link - Seller information - Ratings and reviews The API allows you to specify search parameters to find products matching your criteria, and returns structured data about the matching product listings[4]. While Texau may have some web scraping capabilities, it does not offer a specialized shopping or product search API that could directly replace SerpApi's functionality for this use case. To accomplish product search tasks, you would likely need to use a dedicated e-commerce API or product search service. Citations: [1] https://serpapi.com/google-product-api [2] https://avesapi.com [3] https://www.serphouse.com/blog/google-serp-api-works [4] https://serpapi.com/shopping-results [5] https://serpapi.com/blog/serpapi-new-and-often-missed-features/ [6] https://www.serphouse.com/google-serp-api