Ask HN: Where can I download Amazon reviews as a dataset?

1 points by throwaway13000 6y ago ↗ HN

Are there any datasets where I can download product reviews, product descriptions on Amazon or on Walmart? Looking to do some NLP for specific categories like cameras.

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blackflame7000 6y ago ↗

Cant you just create a web scraper?

throwaway13000 6y ago ↗

Seeing if someone has already done that. Web scraping costs money, amazon may rate limit/block me etc

blackflame7000 6y ago ↗

You could use a VPN. The reviews are constantly being added so im not sure if there is much use for someone to collect snapshots when they could just view the entire current log on amazon.