It's no secret that Amazon's SalesRank is the key to success on the world's largest marketplace. But what if there was a way to automate the process of keeping your products' SalesRank up-to-date without having to use Amazon's API?
Introducing JSoup and Java, two powerful tools that can be used for web automation and screen scraping. With these two tools, you can easily and quickly create a script that will login to your Amazon account, navigate to your product page, and extract the sales rank data. Best of all, this can be done without having to use Amazon's API.
Here's how it works:
First, you'll need to download and install JSoup. You can find the latest version here: http://jsoup.org/download
Next, open up your preferred text editor (I prefer Sublime Text) and create a new file. We’ll call this file amzrank.java .
In this new file, we’ll first import the necessary libraries:
import org.jsoup.*; import org.jsoup.nodes.*; import org.jsoup.select.*; import java.io.*;
Now we’ll define our class and our main method:
public class amzrank { public static void main(String[] args) { } }
Inside our main method, we’ll add the following code:
