I'm trying to write a tool that looks up the average review score and number of ratings for a given Amazon product.
Unfortunately, Amazon seems to intentionally exclude those two things from their API, which has been the subject of many forum threads.
You can technically scrape a product page's HTML and get it, but Amazon will quickly notice that you're running a script and begin serving a CAPTCHA, furthering the idea that they don't want you to collect it.
But with all of that being the case, how do third-party services collect and serve that data? Are they violating Amazon's TOS and collecting it through shady means, or is there some kind of legitimate method that I'm not seeing?
