Downloading Amazon Lists (wish lists)

Questions & Suggestions
1

Couldn’t find anything on “Amazon List” or “Amazon Wishlist”.

I’ve been wanting to download my list (wishlist) of Amazon items that I’ve categorized at Amazon. Currently there’s no way to get that data similar to the mounds of data Amazon collects on everything else we do there.

Then I noticed that KM has website stuff. So, I thought maybe someone else has already done this.

Thanks!

2

Are you aware of the “Print List” button page on the Amazon Wish List page? Doesn’t that give you exactly what you want? You could create a KM macro that presses that button and then selects and copies all the text on the resulting page.

I came up with another solution, but it’s a bit strange, so I wanted to see if the above idea works for you first.

3

Thanks for getting back so quickly.

I’m aware of the Print List, but, yes ideally, I was looking to get what I get from requesting downloads from other data in Amazon. Usually, that results in a CSV file that I can work with easily. But for some reason they don’t include the Lists. (Its more for backup, but it makes a good local database that when combined means I don’t have to know what list something is on.

I suppose I could try to parse out the resulting PDF file, but I’m realizing that might be as good as I can get from Amazon.

I’ve seen some “strange” methods from the LLM/AI direction, so I’m willing to entertain your solution.

4

It’s not a PDF file, it’s an HTML page. And your browser is pretty good at compressing the 1400 lines of fluff into a few lines of text, which you can select by pressing CMD-A and CMD-C. Even better, you can use the Summarize action in Shortcuts to extract just the items you want.

5

That’s something that I didn’t think to look at. Thanks!

I was thinking to “print” the HTML result as a PDF which I could manipulate (eventually) into fields for a CSV file, but perhaps I’m thinking too hard on it. Over-engineered is that I sometimes tell other people. :smiley:

6

Actually, that reminder that its an HTML page got me to try out the LLM/AI method again. I guess that the first time I tried it on a PDF file it choked or didn’t give working data.

But now I try it with the HTML file, and I was able to get to an Apple Numbers spreadsheet complete.

I’m marking this as solved unless you (or someone else) has a nifty solution for all to use.