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Re:Amazon2csv: Amazon products scraper to CSV (no API token ... by AznHisoka on Monday June 11, 2018 @06:15AM (#17283103)
Are you referring to the Product Advertising API?

Doesnt that require you to have a quota of affiliate sales to keep using it? I can’t find where they state this requirement but I remembered they were very sneaky about disclosing this. If you dont have any affiliate sales after X months, your API key will stop working.

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Re:Amazon2csv: Amazon products scraper to CSV (no API token ... by ZoomStop on Monday June 11, 2018 @06:49AM (#17283219)
Currently you have to be a member of their affiliate program to get API access. To become a full "member" you have to be a prospect who generates three referral sales (iirc) within a 30 day period. So once in you have the API, but getting in isn't as easy as filling out a form. From there you can get your API rate limits increased from the default 1x call per second up to 10 based on your prior 30 day affiliate sales.
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Re:Amazon2csv: Amazon products scraper to CSV (no API token ... by greglindahl on Monday June 11, 2018 @04:24PM (#17288210)
Last I looked that limit was per IP address.
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