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Re: Show HN: Amazon Instant, weekend project

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Post by lugg » Sun, May 11, 2014, 4:50 AM UTC

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…

Amazon would not ban you for this. They encourage it. They have throttling on though.

Re: Show HN: Amazon Instant, weekend project

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Post by ChiChou » Sun, May 11, 2014, 5:18 AM UTC

fjw wrote: post #3

lugg wrote: post #2

Sorry but what's the point? Like what issue with amazon search are you trying to solve? Cool weekend project either way. Props.

Good question -- it's not really solving anything, it's just a different way of viewing Amazon products in a slightly more slick interface. It might save you a few seconds on a search, or it might not. I mostly just wanted to play around with the Amazon API and AJAX calls. Thanks!

It does not improve my search experience of save any time.

Re: Show HN: Amazon Instant, weekend project

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Post by Zombieball » Sun, May 11, 2014, 8:56 AM UTC

Out of curiosity, did you just create your Amazon Affiliate account? I am not very familiar with the program but I have read stories about many folks being rejected from the program a week or two after signing up due to their sites "not having enough content".

Cool weekend project. Should be fun to see the code!

Re: Show HN: Amazon Instant, weekend project

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Post by anilgulecha » Sun, May 11, 2014, 10:26 AM UTC

fjw wrote: post #13

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.

Waiting to look at the code :)

Re: Show HN: Amazon Instant, weekend project

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Post by lifeformed » Sun, May 11, 2014, 10:39 AM UTC

sharifhkhan wrote: post #7

fjw wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good question -- it's not really solving anything, it's just a different way of viewing Amazon products in a slightly more slick interface. It might save you a few seconds on a search, or it might not. I mostly just wanted to play around with the Amazon API and AJAX calls. Thanks!

And you didn't set it up so that you can get "up to 8.5% in referral fees when the users you refer to Amazon sites buy qualifying products"?

Who cares, why is it wrong to get referrals?

Re: Show HN: Amazon Instant, weekend project

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Post by metrue » Sun, May 11, 2014, 1:35 PM UTC

fjw wrote: post #17

ryen wrote: post #14

Cool project. Don't force images to a set width/height. You're skewing them. Try using max-width & max-height

Thanks, changed! For some reason I originally used max-height and a fixed width.

max-height and fixed width, my way too.

Re: Show HN: Amazon Instant, weekend project

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Post by tmlee » Sun, May 11, 2014, 4:03 PM UTC

Looks great! I love instant search weekend projects! One thing i learn is also to disable keystrokes that do not change the search query; and you might want to do the same too. Perhaps do not execute the search, if keys like 'ctrl', 'alt', 'commamnd', etc is hit.

Re: Show HN: Amazon Instant, weekend project

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Post by lgas » Sun, May 11, 2014, 4:39 PM UTC

tmlee wrote: post #27

Looks great! I love instant search weekend projects! One thing i learn is also to disable keystrokes that do not change the search query; and you might want to do the same too. Perhaps do not execute the search, if keys like 'ctrl', 'alt', 'commamnd', etc is hit.

The easy way to do this is to use the changing of the value of the search field to trigger searches instead of caring about keystrokes at all.

Of course you probably don't want to send every single change either but thats beyond the scope of this comment. :)

Re: Show HN: Amazon Instant, weekend project

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Post by tmlee » Mon, May 12, 2014, 2:04 AM UTC

lgas wrote: post #28

tmlee wrote: post #27

Looks great! I love instant search weekend projects! One thing i learn is also to disable keystrokes that do not change the search query; and you might want to do the same too. Perhaps do not execute the search, if keys like 'ctrl', 'alt', 'commamnd', etc is hit.

The easy way to do this is to use the changing of the value of the search field to trigger searches instead of caring about keystrokes at all. Of course you probably don't want to send every single change either but thats beyond the scope of this comment. :)

That's true :) While for that, you give a delay for say ~.5 seconds once your hand is off the keyboard, then read the value in the form.

Re: Show HN: Amazon Instant, weekend project

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Post by theshadowmonkey » Mon, May 12, 2014, 4:31 PM UTC

lifeformed wrote: post #25

sharifhkhan wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And you didn't set it up so that you can get "up to 8.5% in referral fees when the users you refer to Amazon sites buy qualifying products"?

Who cares, why is it wrong to get referrals?

+1 what's wrong in using referrals. Every web company out there is earning money more or less the same way.