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by weird-eye-issue 1688 days ago
Man your comment is hilarious because in fact Amazon DOES provide an API for exactly that
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scarygliders 1688 days ago
And yet...

> We've once had to scrape Amazon product pages because they have a lot of API endpoints, but those didn't contain the data we needed.

...only a couple of comments up.

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weird-eye-issue 1688 days ago
You don't know what data they needed. Maybe they needed reviews or product descriptions. The API doesn't cover everything but it does cover the exact use case I was replying to.
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