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Oh well... nevertheless, it was a fun project to work on, and it still is! I am planning to add some aggregated statistics (e.g. price trends by brand/category
by vektor888 8mo ago
Oh well... nevertheless, it was a fun project to work on, and it still is!
I am planning to add some aggregated statistics (e.g. price trends by brand/category)
- superkuh 8mo agoI guess you didn't read the amazon tos then. Price trends and history is not allowed.
- vektor888 8mo agoNot for this specific use case. Are platforms like Keepa violating Amazon's ToS then?
- superkuh 8mo agoAh, from the wording ("pull") I assumed you were using the API. You use your own user-agent to access the site(s) and collect prices then? Do you have any trouble getting blocked doing that? Is it some headless chrome controlled programatically?
- vektor888 8mo agoI have another site that made some qualified sales, so I can use the APIs. I also played a bit with scraping, and you can do that quite easily, but if you want to do it at some scale, you need lots of proxies, and quite soon it gets slow and overkill
- dewey 8mo agoToS are not enforceable if you don't use an official product feed from Amazon in this case. As shown by thousands of companies providing exactly this service for competitor analysis.
- johnneville 8mo agoi think they mean the ToS for amazon's affiliate link service, which prohibits earning a commission if your site has price history (a few large and old sites have exceptions)
- baal80spam 8mo agoOr just quickly pivot to RAM prices!
- ZeWaka 8mo agodiskprices supports RAM as well :)