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I just don’t get it. There’s nothing that could beat an one-time json download per product category. Not even “apply filters”, which I see less and less often w
by wruza 3y ago
I just don’t get it. There’s nothing that could beat an one-time json download per product category. Not even “apply filters”, which I see less and less often with years. Unless a store has thousands of products and vague categories, ofc (but not in my cases).
If there is something beyond Hanlons Razor, I’d like to understand by which metric it works and how. E.g. how fetching 30 rows 10 times through different params compares to fetching 200-300 rows once, assuming various sorts of caching, etc. If everyone does it, it’s either a common methodic or a common ui-fad incompetence. But then even a shallow search should yield at least some results. It doesn’t.
- marginalia_nu 3y agoA large reason why virtually all modern web stores suck as much as they do is the insane amount of bot bullshit they need to deal with. Most storefronts are designed more or less as an obstacle course to make any sort of scraping or automated retrieval more obvious, this includes having beyond useless filters, having no working search function, having nebulous item names, paginating with 4 items at a time, etc.
- wkat4242 3y agoWhy stop bots though. Price comparison sites are amazingly useful.
- marginalia_nu 3y agoCompetitors use them to ever so slightly undercut your prices, get a higher position on said comparison sites, and run you out of business.
- yunwal 3y agoIf you aren’t on comparison sites at all because of your anti-scraping measures, is that better?
- flotzam 3y agoNot to defend the practice but I think the intent is to allow scraping (or API access) only by the price comparison site but not by competitors. (Why wouldn't the competitors then just scrape the price comparison site? Because that site also has anti-scraping measures in place...)
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