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by NathanKP 5073 days ago
I made something similar a while back, but for books. Essentially it used the Amazon API to create a Pinterest like interface for Amazon. (But this was before Pinterest, so it was called a Masonry interface at the time.) Here is what I came up with:

http://bookflavor.com/list/new-york-times-bestsellers-25

Unfortunately, eventually Amazon decided they didn't like me and cut off my API access. This was because I was doing too much scraping of their service, and because they said the design of my site was causing it to falsely report referrals to Amazon. (Still not sure what was causing that exactly.) At any rate they shut off my API access and I haven't had time to come back and revisit the project since I have been working fulltime.

Best of luck with your site, and watch out for sneaky Amazon restrictions.

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Hey, thanks for the heads up and sorry to hear about your troubles. Your site is really beautiful. I too was using masonry before "pinterest type layout" became the more apt phrase. Hope you can get back to developing your site. I know those pesky full-time gigs get in the way of our passion, though they're a little more stable. Best wishes and please keep checking back. Any feedback would be helpful. Thanks again:)