README.md

amazon-data

Scraping functions for (1) Amazon customer reviews and (2) product information from best sellers list

scraper_amazon_best_sellers.R

Function for scraping Amazon product URLs and IDs (ASIN) from best sellers list

scraper_amazon_product_reviews.R

Function for scraping Amazon customer reviews from specified review page (with URL as input)

scraping_amazon_customer_reviews.R

Script for automated scraping of all customer reviews for one or more Amazon products (with product ID/ASIN as input); returns data frame with the following information:

• product ID
• title of review
• author of review
• date
• verified purchase (yes/no)
• format (paperback, kindle etc.)
• stars
• comments
• helpful
• reviewer URL
• reviewer ID

(Basic Amazon scraper adapted and extended from: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rjsaito/Just-R-Things/master/Text%20Mining/amazonscraper.R)