Amazon Order History? Thru perl or anything else?


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by water (Chaplain)

on Nov 26, 2006 at 16:24 UTC ( #586122=perlquestion: print w/ replies, xml )

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water has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

(Excuse a possibly off-topic question...)

Anyone know how to extract a full order history from AMZN without having to resort to screen scraping?

I looked through their API and didn't see anything.

Any suggestions (perl, curl, websites, links, whatever) much appreciated!

Thanks

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Re: Amazon Order History? Thru perl or anything else? by Anonymous Monk on Nov 26, 2006 at 21:58 UTC
Ask AMZN	[reply]
Re: Amazon Order History? Thru perl or anything else? by planetscape (Canon) on Nov 27, 2006 at 13:43 UTC
I would begin by using HTTP::Recorder to record a successful manual form submission. The output of HTTP::Recorder, just as with WWW::Mechanize::Shell, can be "dropped" right into your WWW::Mechanize scripts. (leira's article "Web Testing with HTTP::Recorder" contains an excellent example of how you might want to do this.) Note that if you are dealing with javascript, you might need to use Win32::IE::Mechanize. If you run into problems, try Super Searching for "mech javascript" - there are many relevant nodes here. Another important tool for finding out what is really happening behind the scenes between server and browser is a protocol analyzer such as Ethereal. HTH, planetscape	[reply]

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