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# How To Build An Amazon Product Scraper With Node.js — Smashing Magazine

**[Smashing Magazine](https://daily.dev/sources/smashing)** · 13 min read · 24 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Web scraping is the practice of extracting large amounts of web data through the use of software. Scraping Amazon product pages can net you invaluable data such as features, prices and reviews. While the act of scraping publicly available data is legal, Amazon has some measures to prevent it on their pages.

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