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vektor888

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    Comment #46746203

    I am still checking the post, and I've already added color mode 1-2 days ago. You can also expect some big changes to the UI very soon

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    Comment #46746185

    I have another website where I made qualified sales and gained access to their APIs. The rate limit is a bit low, so I mixed that with scraping too.

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    Comment #46724814

    Nobody wants to compete. I just shared something I use myself, hoping it could help someone else. Of course, to keep it running, I need to make a profit, since the Amazon API alone…

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    Comment #46723014

    This is because brands are not 100% transparent on this, they could change how they assemble a specific model based on availability. Amazon doesn't expose this data

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    Comment #46713786

    US data should now be refreshed. Prices look much better, but I am still working on product availability. In some cases the API is returning a price and the only way around that is…

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    Comment #46713713

    Cool! I'm happy you've found something working for the Indian marketplaces!

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    Comment #46713639

    Unfortunately, this is what I sometimes experience, and I am not sure there's much that can be done. I am already trying to filter out outliers, but if a price looks "plausible", t…

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    Comment #46713586

    I am still working on availability, but prices should look more accurate for US products

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    Comment #46713468

    I was thinking about including additional stores at some point, but mainly from the EU. Once Amazon's pricing issues stabilize, I will try including some more sources!

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    Comment #46713408

    Unfortunately not, I can see a bunch of other EU countries and Japan, but not India

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    Comment #46713394

    Even terabytedeals.com does, you have a drawer in the top-right corner!

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    Comment #46713327

    You are onto something, I am using a mix of scraping and APIs, and the scraped products don't seem to be accurate due to a faulty CSS selector. I am running the process once again …

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    Comment #46713313

    I tried to have a look, but from my associates central, I cannot enable affiliations on the Indian store, sorry! Moreover, I am not familiar with the Flipkart platform myself

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    Comment #46713034

    This also looks interesting, thanks!

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    Comment #46713025

    Many users are pointing out that the concept is very similar. The product listings are perhaps different?

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    Comment #46713017

    Yes, I guess I should have done some more due diligence before reinventing the wheel... Hopefully, I will find some ways to differentiate. Something I don't see there is a filter b…

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    Comment #46712927

    Thanks for your input! Adding a filter on drive speed is definitely feasible. I will add it as soon as possible

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    Comment #46712912

    I 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 sca…

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    Comment #46712593

    Thanks for the input! As I mentioned to other users, Amazon's pricing seems to be quite dynamic. This data is just 4-5 hours old, but it already seems quite stale. Note taken that …

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    Comment #46712560

    Not for this specific use case. Are platforms like Keepa violating Amazon's ToS then?

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    Comment #46712517

    Thanks for the feedback! These prices are 5-6 hours old. While working on this site, I noticed that Amazon pricing can be very dynamic. Moreover, it could be that Amazon is returni…

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    Comment #46712356

    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)

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    Comment #46712299

    Thanks for the input! This should be the price as shown in the product listings for the category. Perhaps, depending on product availability, you are shown different prices on the …

  24. story
    TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

    I built a simple tool to compare hard drive and SSD prices by price-per-terabyte. I kept having to calculate $/TB manually when shopping for NAS drives, so I made this to save myse…

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    Comment #38965281

    So they ditches saas by building a saas?