The Knight In Need of A Kivik: A Twilio Intern’s IKEA Hack

The article is written by Matt Auerbach, a Twilio intern alumna who shares his experience of overcoming the challenges of shopping for furniture at IKEA. He recounts how he had to navigate through the maze-like store using only a shopping card and a golf pencil, but eventually used his knowledge of web scraping and Twilio SMS to create an app that allows users to search for products by article number and receive their location. The app uses Mechanize and Beautiful Soup to scrape product information from IKEA's website and dispatches text messages via Twilio SMS with the user's desired item. Matt reflects on how this project improved his experience at IKEA and hopes it can be implemented in IKEA stores to enhance customer shopping experiences.

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