BrowseNodes

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   by BrowseNodes 8y ago

   Thanks! Amazon TOS allows caching. But, not sure if there is any specific restriction on shared cache.
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   by BrowseNodes 8y ago

   Yes. Browse Nodes are essentially product categories. So, users search for the same set of categories. There are ~40K browse nodes in each Amazon domain and we have cached most of them already [1]. So, the cache miss is unlikely here. But,
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   by BrowseNodes 8y ago

   Not really! Lets say, user 1 makes an API call to our server to fetch browse node: 1000 (Books). The first time such request is made, our server will make an API call to Amazon using user 1's AWS key. Once we get the response back, we
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   by BrowseNodes 8y ago

   No. I don't store your API key (i.e. awsSecret). I only cache the product data to serve other users: https://browsenodes.com/how-to-solve-requestthrottled.html Hope that helps!
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   by BrowseNodes 8y ago

   When I was building a price comparison site using Amazon Product Advertising API, I ran into this throttling error frequently: "You are submitting requests too quickly. Please retry your requests at a slower rate." So, I built a s
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   Show HN: BrowseNodes – Get unthrottled access to Amazon Product API(browsenodes.com)

   8 points by BrowseNodes 8y ago|9 comments