Analyze your Amazon orders with Go
Programming Snapshot – Go Analytics
To gain insight into his Amazon orders, Mike Schilli writes a Go program that runs statistics and displays the results graphically.
Amazon has become synonymous with purchases of all kinds. Apart from heavy stuff from the home improvement store and second-hand items on eBay, I'm buying almost everything else I need there – so much so that I'm surprised that "I Amazoned it" hasn't caught on yet.
The never-ending flood of goods – amounting to several dozen orders per month – means that the time and effort needed to check the purchases is increasing in my household. For reasons of data protection or to avoid helping competitors, Amazon is reluctant to email information about the goods and their prices in your order. As an example of this, Amazon confirmations arriving in Gmail only reveal the order numbers, but they do not contain any further descriptions to prevent Google from harvesting information.
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