amazon-search 1.2.0 → 1.2.1

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data/Readme.rdoc

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ This is a tool that does not require configuration of Amazon's API.  The functio
 
 == GOTCHAS
 
-If you are unable to establish an HTTPS connection, this program will not work.   503 errors will occur and the search will fail.  90% of the time, a simply retry will fix the issue.  Working on getting a fix soon!
+Sometimes a 503 error occurs due to the pagination scanning too quickly and overloading the server.  An option will come out in the future to customize how long to sleep before requesting next page of search results.  In the meantime, a simple retry will often work.
     
 == MIT LICENSE
 

data/amazon-search.gemspec

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 Gem::Specification.new do |gem|
   gem.name        = %q{amazon-search}
-  gem.version     = '1.2.0'
+  gem.version     = '1.2.1'
   gem.date        = '2015-09-18'
   gem.platform = Gem::Platform::RUBY
   gem.required_ruby_version = '>= 1.8'

data/lib/amazon-search.rb

@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ module Amazon
 class Search
     def self.find_products(keywords)
         #--------- submit the search form with keywords ---------------------
-        agent = Mechanize.new
+        agent = Mechanize.new{ |a|  a.user_agent_alias = "Mac Safari"} # set browser
+
         main_page = agent.get("http://amazon.com")
         search_form = main_page.form_with :name => "site-search" # find the search form in Amazon
 
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ class Search
         end # ends pagination loop
 
         puts "\n\n(end of search results)"
+        sleep(1) # don't overload the servers
     end
 
 

metadata

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 --- !ruby/object:Gem::Specification
 name: amazon-search
 version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version
-  version: 1.2.0
+  version: 1.2.1
 platform: ruby
 authors:
 - John Mason