Although price scraping has been a problem for many years, Amazon.com’s recent actions will cause many online business to reevaluate the impact on their bottom lines. This article highlight’s Amazon.com’s efforts to block bots and third-party tools from scraping prices from their website.
With no fanfare or warning, Amazon in June began enforcing a long-standing policy prohibiting screen-scraping tools from harvesting listing information directly from its marketplace, a favorite tool for providers of repricing services for merchants, according to a third-party developer.
Amazon also apparently began shutting down access to the Product Advertising API (PAAPI) for some third-party…
Source: http://www.distilnetworks.com/amazon-cracks-down-on-price-scraping/#.UYeLJtiV2eo
With no fanfare or warning, Amazon in June began enforcing a long-standing policy prohibiting screen-scraping tools from harvesting listing information directly from its marketplace, a favorite tool for providers of repricing services for merchants, according to a third-party developer.
Amazon also apparently began shutting down access to the Product Advertising API (PAAPI) for some third-party…
Source: http://www.distilnetworks.com/amazon-cracks-down-on-price-scraping/#.UYeLJtiV2eo
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