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xcubic on Jan 5, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

To get the prices, do you go and copy them manually or have you written some crawlers?

dgranda on Jan 5, 2017 [–]

Price data is retrieved from datafeeds parsing, triggering requests against APIs like Amazon [1] and using custom crawling.

[1] https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/advertising/api/deta...

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