#1 2022-02-27 23:58:42
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limited amazon lookups?
working on importing some new book entries and the amazon lookup stopped working after about 50-100 lookups? switching from amazon US to amazon UK worked for a bit and then started failing as well.
is there an api lookup limit?
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#2 2022-02-28 09:02:53
Re: limited amazon lookups?
GCstar doesn't use the Amazon APIs, it emulates a normal user navigating the webpages. It's possible that Amazon has put some measures to limit the navigation if it detects that it's a program and not a user (the French site FNAC did that some years ago).
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#3 2022-02-28 21:43:51
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Re: limited amazon lookups?
oh ok. ya it seems to be happening again today after 30-50 lookups.
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#4 2022-03-01 01:34:22
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Re: limited amazon lookups?
lookups are working again after waiting an hour or two. just noticed descriptions aren't importing...is that expected or is it something i should file a bug about?
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#6 2022-03-20 18:17:15
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Re: limited amazon lookups?
thank you, that did the trick. puzzling over the code at the moment - looks like the way the description is getting pulled in, there are usually a few empty lines/line breaks at the beginning.
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