Show HN: Amazon Price Monitor (weekend project)

Re:Show HN: Amazon Price Monitor (weekend project) by kd22 on Sunday March 05, 2017 @07:31PM (#13799847)

AFAIK, Amazon's privacy policy does NOT allow you to do web scraping from their website. Read the policy carefully.

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Re:Show HN: Amazon Price Monitor (weekend project) by jasonkostempski on Sunday March 05, 2017 @07:56PM (#13799959)

Is this doing that? If so, does the privacy policy even matter if no one involved has agreed to it?

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Re:Show HN: Amazon Price Monitor (weekend project) by BigBalli on Sunday March 05, 2017 @08:03PM (#13799981)

good insight, but the service uses the official API. No scraping involved.

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Re:Show HN: Amazon Price Monitor (weekend project) by uptown on Sunday March 05, 2017 @07:47PM (#13799912)

That's why they offer their API.

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