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Using Selenium, even headlessly, Amazon prices can easily be scraped. This could be turned into an API without much difficulty, I imagine.



Yeah, my first lines of Python (or code) were Selenium/BeautifulSoup. The problems with these are sensitivity for (DOM) changes, speed, and scale (not that I'm too concerned with those at the moment, it's just a fun refreshing project).




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