Would jump the complexity up for design, coding and ongoing maintenance. The DC client lookups would have to go to the Canadian Data Crow website, from anywhere in the world the client is running from, authenticate them to DC, submit their query, the DC server looks up the info needed from whichever region it is in, then sends it back to the DC client. I would have to make the DC site be a proxy/portal to the API, and have every DC client user request a user/ID from Data Crow, to authorize the connection to the API that I would offer via the DC client to DC website portal. Īnd since the API access via the Affiliate's ID has legal and monetary impacts, I couldn't continue with passing the credential out in the DC client. The percentages aren't much - 2-5 % pers sale depending upon the category/type of the sale different percentages for books, DVD's, baby stuff etc.

But that would require commitment from all users to keep sales up. I am still digging but yeah, it's not looking good.Īnd thinking upon it further, since the only access to their API is via a sales route now, then we would have to monetize and make a Store page on the Data Crow web site, and have all of us users pass enough sales through this DC store to keep the API alive in each regionĪnd I use some of the the percentage-of-sales fees from those sales to fund Data Crow, in addition to or in place of donations. Their whole access is only for a person trying monetize their website. So this becomes and income and tax issue too. And you have to have a tax number and collect and pay taxes on the fees they pay you for pushing sales their way via your website.And you have to have x number of sales via that site, and for each region, to stay an Affiliate and get API access in each region.And you have to have a sales oriented website to be an Affiliate.You have to be an Affiliate in each region to get access for that region's API.I know some of them still do screen scraping.īeing an end-user purchaser of their products doesn't seem to help, as the API access is only granted by being an Associate in the Affliates program.Įverything I can find online, in Amazon's exposed docs and talking to their support phone folks, says that they have tightened this up and made it completely driven by a sales website. I was looking at a bunch of them to see about their solutions.

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