Wikidata:Property proposal/Amazon Browse Node
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amazon.com browse node[edit]
Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Generic
| Description | node related to this concept on amazon.com |
|---|---|
| Represents | Amazon browse node (Q115482920) |
| Data type | External identifier |
| Example 1 | dishwasher (Q186263) --> 3741271 |
| Example 2 | book (Q571) --> 1000 |
| Example 3 | tire (Q169545) --> 353609011 |
| Example 4 | frozen food (Q751728) --> 6459122011 |
| Source | https://www.amazon.com/ ; https://www.browsenodes.com/ |
| Planned use | Manual connection + Mix'n'Match of identifiers |
| Number of IDs in source | over 30.000 (estimates at https://www.nembol.com/e-commerce-for-retailers/amazon-node-id-what-they-are-how-to-find-them) |
| Expected completeness | always incomplete (Q21873886) |
| Formatter URL | https://www.amazon.com/b?node=$1 |
Motivation[edit]
Amazon is a major online vendor, and their product taxonomy assigns a node id to each product category. There are a few online tools to explore such nodes (e.g. https://www.browsenodes.com/) but no public domain dataset with connections to other taxonomies.
The nodes would increase Wikidata connectivity and provide a way to improve the coverage of Wikidata (as it would be easier to identify Amazon categories not present on Wikidata.
TiagoLubiana (talk) 14:41, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
Discussion[edit]
Support Huh, these are stable id's? Is there any possible copyright issue here? Otherwise seems like a good idea. ArthurPSmith (talk) 19:03, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
- @ArthurPSmith: I don't think there is a copyright issue, in the end the nodes are just numeric ids, which are not creative. As for stability, the node "1000" for books has been stable at least since 2007: https://web.archive.org/web/20070216002435/http://www.amazon.com/Subjects-Books/b?ie=UTF8&node=1000. I'd bet most of those are stable to avoid compatibility issue. TiagoLubiana (talk) 14:11, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
- Support This is a great property for such a popular website. -wd-Ryan (Talk/Edits) 03:29, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
- If this is a general Amazon concept the ID should also work for other Amazon websites besides amazon.com. If it's only about Amazon.com, the property name should specify that. ChristianKl ❪✉❫ 22:21, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
- @ChristianKl: Good point. Indeed, these nodes are only for Amazon.com; I'll change the name accordingly. TiagoLubiana (talk) 14:11, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
- @TiagoLubiana, ArthurPSmith, Wd-Ryan:
Done, see Amazon.com browse node (P11293) --DannyS712 (talk) 21:43, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
