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Download Amazon product categories as a CSV file - https://www.browsenodes.com . Interestingly, I bought this domain with all the backlinks for $500 and made more than $500 in the first month itself.

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Man. This is a wonderful little niche product. How did you stumble upon the website to buy?

Thanks! Actually, I was a user of that website. The previous owner put a notice on the landing page that he is selling it. I saw it and bought it immediately because, I didn't want it to go away. But I didn't expect to recover the money in the first month itself!

Since then, I have expanded it to Amazon product data as well - https://www.commercedna.com . But, haven't started charging for it yet.

Interesting. Any reason why you don't have amazon.com.au?

I need Amazon Australia API key or someone with that API key to use my shared cache. Only then, will I be able to collect that data. As of now, no one from au has used it. So I don't have any data on that.

Ah. Sounds like the cache wouldn't be much use for .au since nothing is in it currently. Gotcha.

Brilliant. Kudos.

This is brilliant! How are you gathering the data?

Thanks! Amazon provides an API to get this data. But, it is available only for Amazon affiliates and is throttled to 1 request per second. So, I built a shared cache for these affiliates to overcome their throttling problem. When they use my cache, I accumulate this data and generate the CSV file.

You can read more about it in "How it works?" section here - https://www.commercedna.com

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