@Alpha71@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 4 months agocan anyone recommend a website that will return ACTUAL useful results from Amazon?message-square20fedilinkarrow-up132file-text
arrow-up132message-squarecan anyone recommend a website that will return ACTUAL useful results from Amazon?@Alpha71@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 4 months agomessage-square20fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@dogslayeggs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish28•4 months agoA) Don’t use fucking Amazon. B) It would require a third party to scrape Amazon’s entire search catalog, which Amazon would almost certainly block.
minus-square@IwasondigglinkEnglish3•4 months agoHow do those plugins that track the prices of amazon listings over tome get their data? Don’t they scrape it from the site?
minus-square@dogslayeggs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish6•4 months agoI’m not a plugin developer, so this is just a guess; but I think they scrape from specific items, not the entirety of Amazon’s database.
minus-square@fhek@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish4•4 months agoVia users viewing them with the plugin installed.
A) Don’t use fucking Amazon.
B) It would require a third party to scrape Amazon’s entire search catalog, which Amazon would almost certainly block.
How do those plugins that track the prices of amazon listings over tome get their data? Don’t they scrape it from the site?
I’m not a plugin developer, so this is just a guess; but I think they scrape from specific items, not the entirety of Amazon’s database.
Via users viewing them with the plugin installed.