conductor/tech-stack.md

Tech Stack - Holland Vacation Deal Finder

Core Language

• Python 3.8+: The primary language for the application logic, scrapers, and GUI.

Frontend / GUI

• Tkinter: Primary GUI framework. The application (gui_app.py) uses tkinter and tkinter.ttk with custom styles for Dark Mode.

Web Scraping & Data Extraction

• BeautifulSoup4: For parsing HTML content from vacation rental sites.
• curl-cffi: Used for making stealthy, browser-like requests to avoid bot detection.
• httpx: For asynchronous HTTP requests (used in the orchestrator).
• agent-browser: A Node.js-based CLI tool used for complex browser automation tasks.

External APIs

• OpenWeather API: To fetch weather forecasts for property locations.
• Firecrawl API (Optional): For enhanced scraping and data crawling capabilities.

Data Export & Reports

• ReportLab or FPDF2: Python libraries for generating PDF reports of vacation deals.

Environment & Configuration

• python-dotenv: For managing API keys and environment variables securely.