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Re:Show HN: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB by vektor888 on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @05:13PM (#46712356)
Oh well... nevertheless, it was a fun project to work on, and it still is!

I am planning to add some aggregated statistics (e.g. price trends by brand/category)

Re:Show HN: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB by baal80spam on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @05:22PM (#46712469)
Or just quickly pivot to RAM prices!
Re:Show HN: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB by ZeWaka on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @06:21PM (#46713098)
diskprices supports RAM as well :)
Re:Show HN: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB by superkuh on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @05:18PM (#46712424)
I guess you didn't read the amazon tos then. Price trends and history is not allowed.
Re:Show HN: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB by dewey on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @05:37PM (#46712635)
ToS are not enforceable if you don't use an official product feed from Amazon in this case. As shown by thousands of companies providing exactly this service for competitor analysis.
Re:Show HN: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB by johnneville on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @11:42PM (#46715401)
i think they mean the ToS for amazon's affiliate link service, which prohibits earning a commission if your site has price history (a few large and old sites have exceptions)
Re:Show HN: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB by vektor888 on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @05:31PM (#46712560)
Not for this specific use case.

Are platforms like Keepa violating Amazon's ToS then?

Re:Show HN: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB by superkuh on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @05:54PM (#46712819)
Ah, from the wording ("pull") I assumed you were using the API. You use your own user-agent to access the site(s) and collect prices then? Do you have any trouble getting blocked doing that? Is it some headless chrome controlled programatically?
Re:Show HN: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB by vektor888 on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @06:03PM (#46712912)
I have another site that made some qualified sales, so I can use the APIs.

I also played a bit with scraping, and you can do that quite easily, but if you want to do it at some scale, you need lots of proxies, and quite soon it gets slow and overkill