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Introducing @FiverFun - silly things on Amazon for under £5

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It's nearly Christmas! That means Secret Santa time at work, and the need for little stocking-filler gifts. But where can you find such cheap treats? Aha! I have created a service just for you! https://fiverfun.tumblr.com/ is my new(ish) project. It scours Amazon for the best and/or weirdest things for under a fiver! At the moment the site posts updates 3 times per day - and you can also follow it on Twitter. It has been fascinating to see what people buy - as part of Amazon's affiliate…

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An API for Amazon Wishlists

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In the glorious past, Amazon had an API for interacting with its "Wishlist" service. Not any more though. So, here's the inspiring story of how a rag-tag band of adventurers brought it back from the dead! Several years ago, Justin Scarpetti created a tool to extract data from an Amazon wishlist - the imaginatively named Amazon Wish Lister. It used that most vulgar of programming practices - Screen Scraping! Yup, gobble up the HTML and attempt to parse it. Needs must in a dire situation. …

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