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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


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.


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 get product info

If users won't find anything useful, I will simply put it offline and run it on demand whenever I need a new drive.

As many users pointed out, neither DiskPrices' idea nor mine is unique; there are many alternatives with different product listings.

It is only a benefit for the users if they have more choice


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


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 I get prices for items that are unavailable or completely off (perhaps from a 3rd-party seller?).


I am still working on availability, but prices should look more accurate for US products


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!


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!


Was about to say, but it looks like you’re working on it!

Cool idea, it’s already been helpful to me even with the often inaccurate scraping.


Great! Looking forward to giving it another go once the data has refreshed.

Congrats on the launch!


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


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


Yup don't worry about flipkart if that's the case, but can you please add atleast the amazon.in's suggestion. Thanks for trying with flipkart as well tho! But are you able to connect it with amazon.in?


Unfortunately not, I can see a bunch of other EU countries and Japan, but not India


Edit: looks like diskprices does support India, I may have missed the spot as I wasn't wearing glasses!

https://diskprices.com/?locale=in


Cool! I'm happy you've found something working for the Indian marketplaces!


Hm is there any definite reason for this? Perhaps I can try a hand at it but can you please tell me what's the thing which stops you maybe?

No worries about it tho I am just curious and good luck for the project!


This also looks interesting, thanks!


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