kanitsharma / amazon-search-cli

CLI to fetch amazon search results

Amazon Search CLI

Some Notes

Why Puppeteer?

• Amazon is likely blocking non browser traffic, I tried adding User-Agent in the headers but it did not work for me.

• With Puppeteer I can run DOM queries, so I don't have to use a separate html parser.

Why Commander?

• Commander provides a clean and extensible API to build CLI commands, promoting scalability and maintaining code cleanliness. plus it is very easy to add subcommands, if required in future.

Basic Usage

Install Dependencies

npm i

Compile Typescript

npm run build

To get a list of all the commands and options

node dist/main.js --help

Npm script is also available if you prefer

npm run search -- --help

An example usage would be like

node dist/main.js --sort rating --desc cookies

Advanced example

node dist/main.js --sort rating --desc --prime --limit 5 cookies

Might implement in future

• Stream results as soon as they get parsed
• Pagination options
• Option to search in different countries like amazon.in