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tightarse on 15/03/2015 - 21:05 amazon.com (383 clicks)
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Check before clicking the 'buy-now' button, as these often revert to full price without notice. Enjoy :)

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Childrens
us au Good Night Little Turtle
us au Rabbit Readers
us au Terry Treetop and the Lost Egg
us au The Adventures of Tempest & Serena
us au The Princess in My Teacup

Classics
us au The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
us au The Horsemen
us au The Raven
us au The Three Musketeers
us au The Ugly Duckling

Cookbooks
us au 50 Crockpot Recipes
us au Grilling Recipes
us au Irish Recipes for St Patrick's Day
us au Make Ahead Meals
us au Quick Vegetarian Breakfast Recipes

Fantasy
us au Branded
us au Days Gone Bad
us au Queen Mab
us au Rise of the Dragons
us au The Girl in the Box Series

Fiction
us au A Dead Red Alibi
us au First Wave
us au Nora Roberts Land
us au The Belial Stone
us au The Murder Pit

Health
us au Candida Cure
us au Herbal Antibiotics & Antivirals
us au Herbs 201
us au Running with Curves
us au Wild Orange Essential Oil

Home
us au DIY Household Hacks
us au Fun Funky Rose Art
us au How to Knit
us au The Total Clutter Makeover
us au Vegetable Container Gardening

Info Tech
us au Android Programming in 24 Hours
us au Java in 8 Hours
us au Microsoft SQL Server 2014
us au Understanding Personal Data Security
us au Word 2013 for Academics

Memoirs
us au Detour from Normal
us au I Just Wanted Love
us au Street Child
us au The Memoirs of Detective Vidocq
us au Windows to Our World

Money
us au Free Profits
us au Getting Off the Street
us au How To Buy Gold For Profit
us au The Entrepreneur's Dilemma
us au Ultimate Financial Success

Music
us au Becoming a Better Guitar Player
us au Blues Guitar
us au Guitar Modes for Slackers
us au Guitar Theory for Slackers
us au The Beatles Long & Fabulous Road

Mystery & Suspense
us au Horns of the Devil
us au The Back Door Man
us au The Last Call
us au The Murder Pit
us au The Mystery of Jessica Benson

Parenting
us au Discipline for Parenting Preschoolers
us au Divorce, Separation & Children
us au Launching You into Motherhood
us au Raising Kids With Good Manners
us au The Child Who Loves to Read

Romance
us au Come Home to Me
us au Rocky Mountain Heat
us au The Duke's Undoing
us au The Merchant of Venice Beach
us au Undercover Love

Science Fiction
us au A Quest of Heroes
us au Magic of Thieves
us au Planet Urth
us au The Mind Readers
us au Zombie Fallout

Self Help
us au Always Know What To Say
us au Hacking Laziness
us au Taming the Tongue
us au Teachings of the Tao Te Ching
us au The 5 Pillars to Unlock Excellence

Spiritual
us au A Lancaster Amish Home For Jacob
us au His Baby Bond
us au Pocket Full of Victories
us au The Holy Bible
us au While I'm Waiting

Travel
us au Antelope Canyon
us au For 91 Days in Idaho
us au Handbook Guide to Backpacking Abroad
us au The Ultimate China Travel Guide
us au Venice Italy

War
us au Back to War
us au Corps Justice Box Set
us au ISIS: Terrorists on the Rise
us au Rolling Thunder
us au World War 2 Leadership

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  alvian on 15/03/2015 - 22:51

  The Belial Stone, in Fantasy & repeated in Fiction.

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  kiamsup on 15/03/2015 - 23:27

  +1

  thank you very much TA

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  [Deactivated] on 15/03/2015 - 23:45

  +1

  Top effort TA, thanks!

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  Japius on 16/03/2015 - 07:34

  Grilling Recipes is now $4.91 on the au store

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  rjblakel on 16/03/2015 - 10:31

  Some good, highly rated books on here.

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  douglasb on 16/03/2015 - 12:12

  +3

  All y'all might enjoy this.

  A while back I wrote a little perl script to take control of firefox on windows and harvest TA's amazon. It's fairly tricky to get MozRepl and Mechanize running with perl and firefox, not for the light hearted. Works well for me now though.

  
  #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
  #
  # douglasb@ozbargain, March 2015
  #
  # This will be a bit tricky to make work. You'll need
  # 1) Firefox
  # 2) The 'MozRepl' plugin for firefox
  # 3) The MozRepl plugin started: Menu -> Tools -> MozRepl -> Start
  # 4) Strawberry perl (I'm using windows for this)
  # 5) The MozRepl, HTML::TableExtract and WWW::Mechanize::FireFox plugins
  #    for perl installed. At a dos prompt:
  #    cpanm --force MozRepl
  #    cpanm HTML::TableExtract
  #    cpanm --notext WWW::Mechanize::Firefox
  # 6) The Firefox 'Copy Links' plugin makes it a bit easier to snarf links
  #    from TA's posts.
  # 7) Log in to amazon.com or amazon.com.au with the account you want to
  #    grab the books with. Make sure you use the .com or .com.au links
  #    as appropriate.
  #
  # It's all a bit tricky to get MozRepl and Mechanize going, but it's worth
  # the effort and fooling around to harvest the books TA posts up from time
  # to time, hands free! Good luck!
  
  use HTML::TableExtract;
  use WWW::Mechanize::Firefox;
  
  my $w;
  my $url;
  
  # insert urls for books here
  my @urls = (
      'http://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0019LNUVA',
      'http://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B001EOCFU4',
      'http://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0039UUB16',
  # [... other URLS here ...]
      'http://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B00UO43IYC'
  );
  
  # commandeer firefox
  $w = WWW::Mechanize::Firefox->new(activate => 1,
                                       frames => 1,
                                       autodie => 0,
                                       );
  
  foreach $url (@urls) {
      $w->get($url);
  
      if ($w->success()) {
  
          print "Buying: $url\n";
  
          my $thing = $w->xpath('//input[@name="submit.one-click-order"]', all => 1);
  
          if ($thing > 0) {    
              $w->click({ xpath => '//input[@name="submit.one-click-order"]' });
          } else {
              warn "Couldn't click $url\n";
          }
      }
  }
  
  

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    tightarse on 16/03/2015 - 13:08

    Hi douglas. Don't profess to know much about programming, so how does it cope with books that are no longer free?

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      douglasb on 19/03/2015 - 17:22

      +1

      It doesn't, and that'll be a bit of a fatal flaw for anyone who has credit on their account or a linked funding source. I have neither, and just let it fail when it clicks one that isn't free).

      I guess maybe I should look at a fix for that, eh? :-)

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    neil aus on 17/03/2015 - 16:42

    Hey, is there a way to simply list the books that have:

    "$0.00 includes tax, if applicable"

    or similar text in the body? Maybe these posts could be updated when the price is changed by running a script?

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      douglasb on 19/03/2015 - 17:26

      +1

      It would be easy enough to look for a $0 price tag and not click if it wasn't free. that's pretty much what TA asked about in his reply. As to updating the posts… I'm not so sure about that… does OzBargain have an API, does OzBargain allow bots?

      On a (slightly) different angle, I did look at the Amazon API to see how hard it would be to write a script that found books matching criteria such as the ones TA uses. It wasn't trivial and required a payment of some sort before I could even experiment, so I put that in the too-hard basket for now.

      (I dunno how TA generates his lists, maybe that is what he's already doing).

      What might be nice is a greasemonkey app that takes TA's lists, heads over to amazon, logs in and buys all the books that are still free. I've never written anything for greasemonkey… I wonder how hard that would be. It's just use the same logic I've written there, in a new language (javascript instead of perl).

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  aussieaubs on 16/03/2015 - 21:50

  some books reverted back so quickly