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Re:Show HN: I built a service to discover and monitor rapidl... by saturday14 on Saturday April 04, 2020 @09:43AM (#22778167)
Very cool. I guess as you grow, you could get more partners and the data will keep getting more and more accurate. I wish big guys like Amazon released aggregated sales data.

How do you get access to Amazon searches, google searches etc? do you have to pay for those?

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Re:Show HN: I built a service to discover and monitor rapidl... by mikerubini on Saturday April 04, 2020 @09:46AM (#22778189)
Absolutely. I don't pay to access data. All of my projects are around collecting data. I'm a master scraper ️

If you are curious, at https://rubini.solutions you can check out my other SaaS products =)

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Re:Show HN: I built a service to discover and monitor rapidl... by saturday14 on Saturday April 04, 2020 @10:22AM (#22778362)
Just checked your list of products, very cool!

I've always wondered about building a career with scraping, but never got around to it. One reason is the legality of scraping - big sites like Craigslist have gone after (and shut down) smaller projects. I believe priceonomics (YC company) built a big business with scraping.

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