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by anton_tarasenko 3191 days ago
Reddit Search can do a similar trick: "subreddit:gadgets site:amazon.com", sorted by "top"[1]

It finds only posts, not comments. That's a good thing. Comment karma accounts for a comment's entire content. What if the comment gets upvotes for something other than an Amazon link inside it? Post karma is a bit better in this respect.

Reddit Search supports any domain. So you can search any shop. Like vat19.com and etsy.com.

Reddit allows browsing by domain. Like https://www.reddit.com/domain/amazon.com/top/

Secondly, some subreddits are specifically devoted to product recommendations:

* https://www.reddit.com/r/shutupandtakemymoney/

* https://www.reddit.com/r/IdBuyThat/

* https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonTopRated/

And Reddit has a JSON output: https://www.reddit.com/r/shutupandtakemymoney.json?sort=top&...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/search?q=subreddit%3Agadgets+site%3Aa...

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> Comment karma accounts for a comment's entire content. What if the comment gets upvotes for something other than an Amazon link inside it?

Case in point: I was just looking at /r/malefashionadvice on the submitted site and found a lot of comments that were upvoted for mocking other users with joke products.

> And Reddit has a JSON output.

I did not know that. Very cool. I tried this for AmazonTopRated => https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonTopRated.json?sort=top&t=all and got a forbidden / 403 error. Turns out that subreddit is "Private" / Invite-only.

However, google cache still has links. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.red...

Reddit can also send RSS:

* https://www.reddit.com/r/shutupandtakemymoney.rss?sort=top&t...

AmazonTopRated is invite-only. Hence, no 403.

Is this a awesome! Is there a resource page on Reddit listing these different kind of queries?
Search docs[1], Reddit Wiki in general and their API docs.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/wiki/search