Ask HN: Consequences of adding all items on Amazon in the cart?
I was talking to a family member where they wanted to order a lot of goods from a website. I jokingly said I'll write a script to add all the items on the website to the cart. What would be the consequences if one were to write such a script?
I know of one off cases were one item was priced in millions. My understanding is that even if one were to order such a highly priced item, the payment processor wouldn't let it through.
Edit: I do NOT intend to do so.
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I would hope all shopping cart providers and e-commerce sites would have some similar sort of hard limit.
a) fetch products from a particular category
b) add products to cart
c) proceed to checkout
Amazon doesn't mention how they'd enforce against scraping but my guess is IP- and account-level restrictions.