Bot written to buy random things each month from Amazon

Re:Bot written to buy random things each month from Amazon by dariusk on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @10:14AM (#4910389)

I'm actually not parsing the HTML at all. Not really. I'm using PhantomJS, which is a headless web browser. Each time I load a page, I inject jQuery and just do a simple JS command like

$('#whatevertheIDisfortheform').submit();

It's the equivalent of opening up your console on each page and interacting with it via jQuery rather than a mouse and keyboard.

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Re:Bot written to buy random things each month from Amazon by jrabone on Friday December 14, 2012 @05:28AM (#4920309)

So something has parsed the HTML - but at least you didn't have to reinvent that wheel :)

Still, you might want to look at https://affiliate-program.amazon.co.uk/gp/advertising/api/de... - the Product Advertising API looks like the latest evolution of the E-Commerce Service API and might let you do things like stop the bot from making duplicate similar purchases, or accidentally fulfilling your wishlist.

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