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Re: Show HN: Amazon Instant, weekend project

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Post by fjw »

pgrote wrote: post #12

Kaspersky reports the URL as a phishing site. "The requested URL cannot be provided URL: http://amazon.frankjwu.com/ Blocked by Web Anti-Virus Reason: phishing URL Click here if you believe that the web page has been blocked mistakenly. Detection method: heuristic analysis"

:( Well, I'm planning on open-sourcing it after I clean up the code, so you could check it out then.

Re: Show HN: Amazon Instant, weekend project

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Post by alialkhatib »

fjw wrote: post #9
alialkhatib wrote: post #8

I get the impression that if this wasn't calling on a third-party API (ie if you were indexing the product listings yourself) you'd be able to give more "instant" results, but this is a cool take on search on Amazon (although obviously inspired by Google and other instant search features). I also imagine Amazon would blacklist you for harvesting their product listing, although since you're still giving them referrals…

I think it would be really interesting to download the entire listing and watch how volatile everything is, especially the item prices. Searching would definitely be much faster as well. Thanks for checking it out and thanks for the suggestions!

That's a really interesting idea; tracking prices and potentially giving a Buy/Wait indicator would be really cool.

CamelCamelCamel[0] actually does some price tracking, but I'm not very familiar with what they do with it (with regard to giving advice on whether to buy or not). You might be able to grab some information from them on products via an API or scraper. I'm not seeing an API, nor do I see anything about using their data for other stuff, but I suppose it goes without saying that a really aggressive scraper wouldn't be welcome.

0: http://camelcamelcamel.com/

Re: Show HN: Amazon Instant, weekend project

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Post by xur17 »

alialkhatib wrote: post #15
fjw wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it would be really interesting to download the entire listing and watch how volatile everything is, especially the item prices. Searching would definitely be much faster as well. Thanks for checking it out and thanks for the suggestions!

That's a really interesting idea; tracking prices and potentially giving a Buy/Wait indicator would be really cool. CamelCamelCamel[0] actually does some price tracking, but I'm not very familiar with what they do with it (with regard to giving advice on whether to buy or not). You might be able to grab some information from them on products via an API or scraper. I'm not seeing an API, nor do I see anything about us…

I've used CamelCamelCamel a few times - they let you choose a price, and they'll send you a notification when the price drops below that. Something that can determine when the price is at its lowest based on previous trends would be pretty neat.

Re: Show HN: Amazon Instant, weekend project

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Post by lugg »

fjw wrote: post #6
amccloud wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which API are you using? Didn't know they had a product API.

Check out Amazon's Product Advertising API: https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/advertising/api/deta... It supports Item Lookup, Item Search, Cart Creation, etc. Pretty cool!

You can browse category nodes too iirc
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