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Amazon-Vine-Explorer / AmazonVineExplorer

Makes the Amazon Vine Website evan a bit better
MIT License
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Ability to remove no longer available items from database #32

Open Wookbert opened 1 month ago

Wookbert commented 1 month ago

Correct me if my understanding is wrong in the the Vine Explorer can only retrieve newly added items from the Amazon Servers to be saved in the local database on my computer, but not compare the local database against the Amazon Servers in such a way to automatically remove items which are no longer available (due to large demand or because they have been pulled by the seller entirely).

So there is no such thing as a „purge“ button, right!?

Feature request in that case: It would be nice if one could remove an item which one tries to order, but is no longer available, at the click of a button from the local database, so it no longer appears when browsing using e.g. the search function.

Olum-hack commented 1 month ago

Maybe it is enough to just don't show the unlisted items. It can be an option in the Settings

Christof121 commented 1 month ago

Correct me if my understanding is wrong in the the Vine Explorer can only retrieve newly added items from the Amazon Servers to be saved in the local database on my computer, but not compare the local database against the Amazon Servers in such a way to automatically remove items which are no longer available (due to large demand or because they have been pulled by the seller entirely).

So there is no such thing as a „purge“ button, right!?

Feature request in that case: It would be nice if one could remove an item which one tries to order, but is no longer available, at the click of a button from the local database, so it no longer appears when browsing using e.g. the search function.

That is kinda correct. The script saves all products displayed on Vine, regardless of whether they can be ordered at the time of display. We assume that all products that are displayed can be ordered. Products are automatically deleted from the database if they have not been found in the next 5 complete AutoScans on Vine (unless there are currently no errors in the script) There is a button to delete the entire database, but so far no button to delete individual entries.

Wookbert commented 1 month ago

Products are automatically deleted from the database if they have not been found in the next 5 complete AutoScans on Vine (unless there are currently no errors in the script)

Well, is there a way to check that manually? Can you explain what AVE scans? Does it only receive new items on scanning or can/does AVE actually scan for all Vine items ever, as long as they are still in Amazons Vine database?

Exactly when do items disappear from the locally stored Vine database? When the Vine units for a particular item are „sold out“ or when the product has been removed entirely from Amazon?

Does that include items under the Favorites tab? I have probably a hundred favorites, but most of those are no longer available for order. I’d like to remove those permanently from the locally stored AVE database, not only from the Favorites.