Question

I need the API to fetch the top selling books on Amazon. By default it only fetches the top 10 items, but I need more than 10, near about 1000 items content by using single hit.

OR

I need the way to scrape the 1000 top selling books using the Amazon ECS API.

OR

Is there any way except the Amazon API to scrape all of the top selling books on Amazon?

Answer 1

here’s how I do it – but it won’t work for more than 100 items after the end of this month as Amazon are limiting ItemPage to 10.

rescheck = Amazon::Ecs.item_search("search term here", :response_group => 'Large', :country => 'uk')
n=0
rescheck.total_pages.times do |n|
  n=n+1
  if n <= rescheck.total_pages
      res = Amazon::Ecs.item_search("search term here", :response_group => 'Large', :item_page =>n, :country => 'uk')
        res.items.each do |item|

          asin = item.get('ASIN')
          title = item.get('ItemAttributes/Title')
          brand = item.get('ItemAttributes/Brand')

 #etc