vektor888

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by vektor888 8mo ago
I am still checking the post, and I've already added color mode 1-2 days ago. You can also expect some big changes to the UI very soon
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by vektor888 8mo ago
I have another website where I made qualified sales and gained access to their APIs. The rate limit is a bit low, so I mixed that with scraping too.
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by vektor888 8mo ago
Nobody wants to compete. I just shared something I use myself, hoping it could help someone else. Of course, to keep it running, I need to make a profit, since the Amazon API alone won't let me discover so many products, and I need to
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by vektor888 8mo ago
This is because brands are not 100% transparent on this, they could change how they assemble a specific model based on availability. Amazon doesn't expose this data
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by vektor888 8mo ago
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
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by vektor888 8mo ago
Cool! I'm happy you've found something working for the Indian marketplaces!
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by vektor888 8mo ago
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
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by vektor888 8mo ago
I am still working on availability, but prices should look more accurate for US products
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by vektor888 8mo ago
I was thinking about including additional stores at some point, but mainly from the EU. Once Amazon's pricing issues stabilize, I will try including some more sources!
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by vektor888 8mo ago
Unfortunately not, I can see a bunch of other EU countries and Japan, but not India
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by vektor888 8mo ago
Even terabytedeals.com does, you have a drawer in the top-right corner!
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by vektor888 8mo ago
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!
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by vektor888 8mo ago
I tried to have a look, but from my associates central, I cannot enable affiliations on the Indian store, sorry! Moreover, I am not familiar with the Flipkart platform myself
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by vektor888 8mo ago
This also looks interesting, thanks!
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by vektor888 8mo ago
Many users are pointing out that the concept is very similar. The product listings are perhaps different?
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by vektor888 8mo ago
Yes, I guess I should have done some more due diligence before reinventing the wheel... Hopefully, I will find some ways to differentiate. Something I don't see there is a filter by brand or a text search across all fields. I was plann
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by vektor888 8mo ago
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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by vektor888 8mo ago
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 an
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by vektor888 8mo ago
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!
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by vektor888 8mo ago
Not for this specific use case. Are platforms like Keepa violating Amazon's ToS then?
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by vektor888 8mo ago
Thanks for the feedback! These prices are 5-6 hours old. While working on this site, I noticed that Amazon pricing can be very dynamic. Moreover, it could be that Amazon is returning the retail price, but because of current availability, o
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by vektor888 8mo ago
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)
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by vektor888 8mo ago
Thanks for the input! This should be the price as shown in the product listings for the category. Perhaps, depending on product availability, you are shown different prices on the product page. I will take a better look into this, but I can
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by vektor888 3y ago
So they ditches saas by building a saas?
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by vektor888 5y ago
In the past I developed a mobile app that was standalone and users had to pay only once. Users then started asking extra features and down voted my app when I said I didn't want to implement them. When the app lost its popularity and w