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Re: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

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Post by vektor888 »

jollymonATX wrote: post #49
SuperKlaus wrote: post #28

I filtered for ssd only, minimum 2tb, top 5 prices are wrong or the product is not available on Amazon US

These sites all suffer from the same defect, amazon pa-api pricing is NOT consistent in any region with the carted values an end user will be shown. This is a well known thing if you have worked with that api before and you are essentially just dropping the authors 24 hr amz cookie for them to earn off all other sales. Not to say thats bad, but the value add from a price comparison site like this is minimal to the en…

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", this filtering doesn't do much.

Sometimes I get prices for items that are unavailable or completely off (perhaps from a 3rd-party seller?).

Re: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

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Post by vektor888 »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #47
vektor888 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Edit: looks like diskprices does support India, I may have missed the spot as I wasn't wearing glasses! https://diskprices.com/?locale=in

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

Re: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

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Post by creatonez »

TacoCommander wrote: post #25

I haven't needed to buy a spinning hard drive in about 5 years. I have no idea how to choose one any more. There are so many variations. Red, Purple, Blue, Gaming, Enterprise, Business. I just want to store some files.

There have always been different types of hard drives...

Re: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

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Post by vektor888 »

neurodyne wrote: post #44
vektor888 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 to get some - hopefully - better data!

Great! Looking forward to giving it another go once the data has refreshed. Congrats on the launch!

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 scraping

Re: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

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Post by Aurornis »

jollymonATX wrote: post #49
SuperKlaus wrote: post #28

I filtered for ssd only, minimum 2tb, top 5 prices are wrong or the product is not available on Amazon US

These sites all suffer from the same defect, amazon pa-api pricing is NOT consistent in any region with the carted values an end user will be shown. This is a well known thing if you have worked with that api before and you are essentially just dropping the authors 24 hr amz cookie for them to earn off all other sales. Not to say thats bad, but the value add from a price comparison site like this is minimal to the en…

Is this really it? The prices just seem completely wrong from the links I clicked. I can’t imagine the PA-API is really that far off for every product, unless something has changed drastically from the last time I used the API.

Re: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

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Post by kldg »

looks like you've made considerable changes since comments; all prices I checked were accurate (while nothing I checked on diskprices was). this looks genuinely helpful as this is something I look into myself by manually looking around, and is clean/easy-to-use; bookmarked it. only thing I might like on top of this is to be able to filter by if renewed or not, though they seem to often have it in the product title.

Re: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

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Post by nick238 »

ponytech wrote: post #20

How is it different from https://diskprices.com/ ?

I've noticed diskprices.com getting increasingly bad with filters, probably because the source data is garbage with Amazon sellers trying to jam all the keywords into titles or descriptions/features..."M.2 USB-C 3.2 PCIE NVME"

Re: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

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Post by hi_hi »

You might be interested in the list of similar services to this, from my own similar service (see the list at the bottom)

https://listofdisks.pages.dev/

Note, this is painfully out of date, I no longer maintain it.

How did you get the data? I went the scraping route after having difficulty qualifying for access to Amazons API as I didn't generate enough purchases via the affiliate links. Would be interested in hearing how you approached this.

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