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Re: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

I guess you didn't read the amazon tos then. Price trends and history is not allowed.

Not for this specific use case.

Are platforms like Keepa violating Amazon's ToS then?

Re: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

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post #10

Every price i checked on Amazon.de was wrong on your website, this is totally useless! Often the real price is like 300% higher

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 it should be updated more frequently!

Re: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

#13
post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

I guess you didn't read the amazon tos then. Price trends and history is not allowed.

ToS 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.

Re: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

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Feedback:

Interesting. Glad there was a drop down to pick a bunch of different sources. I was expecting it to be US central but was happy when I saw I could search for amazon.co.uk

An ability to search for NAS drives, even if it's just a substring search within the product name, would be great.

Also a search on drive speed. I'm not interested in 5400rpm drives, only 7200rpm+.

(I'm looking for a bunch of 7200rpm drives that are NAS rated, so I'm not interested in generic consumer grade 5400rpm drives right now.)

Re: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

#15
post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess you didn't read the amazon tos then. Price trends and history is not allowed.

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

Ah, 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?

Re: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Ah, 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?

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 scale, you need lots of proxies, and quite soon it gets slow and overkill

Re: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

#17
post #14

Feedback: Interesting. Glad there was a drop down to pick a bunch of different sources. I was expecting it to be US central but was happy when I saw I could search for amazon.co.uk An ability to search for NAS drives, even if it's just a substring search within the product name, would be great. Also a search on drive speed. I'm not interested in 5400rpm drives, only 7200rpm+. (I'm looking for a bunch of 7200rpm drive…

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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