amazon_dsar_analysis

PHP Scripts to analyse the results of an Amazon.de "Data Subject Access Request" / "Datenauskunft".

I tweeted the resulsts of these scripts while developing them, so have a look at this Twitter thread to get an impression of what the analysis looks like (and what it contained for me): https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1042392922719748097.html

Instructions

1. Download or clone this code
2. Copy over your DSAR result to Amazon Datenauskunft/Jan Piotrowski or better adapt the path in includes/path.php
3. Open index.htm on a local webserver or upload to any host with PHP

ASIN Cache

There is a mechanism to scrape titel and author information to ASINs that appear in the data:

• content.php writes all discovered ASINs into cache/asins.json
• Run scrape_asin_from_amazon.php to fill that array with scraped title + author information
  • 30 ASINs at a time
  • be careful/slow or Amazon will ban/captcha you (I could scrape ~500 ASINs with no problem)
  • ASINs where it can't find any data or error out are written to cache/asinErrors.json
  • Reloading the script will scrape the next set of ASINs, until errors and ASINs unfilled are identical
• Reload content.php to see the scraped data appear

Support

I wrote this for myself, it works with my data.
But of course feel free to open an issue if it doesn't work for you or your find any bugs, and I will try to help you.