https://github.com/skatkov/acart

Amazon product bundler and shortener (open sourced failed side-project)
https://github.com/skatkov/acart

amazon shortener url-shortener

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Amazon product bundler and shortener (open sourced failed side-project)

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/skatkov/acart
• Owner: skatkov
• Created: 2020-02-11T21:55:49.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-04-18T21:43:49.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-08T00:13:32.367Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: amazon, shortener, url-shortener
• Language: HTML
• Homepage: https://www.acart.to
• Size: 1.81 MB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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## WARNING

This project is abandoned!!! But you are free to browse around -- I still think it was a useful excersise in building url shorteners.

Please use at your own risk, Amazon is pretty sketchy about this thing being legal or not. (and everyone is scared of Amazon closing their accounts for any minor issue... so you probably should not use it)

## Features

aCart.to is not a regular amazon shortener. It can produce **very short links** and **include associate tag**. But what separates aCart.to apart from the rest are other features:

- Bundles multiple products with a single link

- After pressing a link, user will be redirected to checkout page with products prefilled

- Once at checkout, user can remove all or some items before making a purchase

## Setup

Make sure to have a ruby version manager of your choosing ready to install tehse commands

```

gem install bundler

bundle instal

```

## Database Setup

We're using PostgreSQL database. You can create required database account with this:

```bash

  createuser -U postgres acart

  createdb -U postgres -O acart acart_production

  createdb -U postgres -O acart acart_test

  createdb -U postgres -O acart acart_development

```