Note: This package is officially deprecated, Amazon has changed their format to generate random HTML and prevent scraping.
Fetch a data.frame of reviews for an Amazon product using R. To install from this Github,
make sure you have the devtools package and run install_github('amazonreviews', 'robertzk').
Then you can fetch Amazon reviews by product ID:
revs <- fetch_amazon_reviews(1449316956); print(tail(revs[, 1:6]))
# helpful_count helpful_total stars author title date
# 19 1 1 3 Susan Donath Only buy this if you want to learn ggplot2 February 16, 2014
# 20 1 1 5 Grant Coble-Neal Great book February 2, 2014
# 21 1 1 5 jb in sd Good & thorough resource for scientists November 30, 2013
# 22 1 1 5 Stefano Picozzi Right content at the right time November 28, 2013
# 23 3 4 4 Luiz Marques Good Coverage of the topic January 14, 2013
# 24 NA NA 3 I. Vining It's more for ggplot2 than regular R March 11, 2014