Scraping functions for (1) Amazon customer reviews and (2) product information from best sellers list

Function for scraping Amazon product URLs and IDs (ASIN) from best sellers list

Function for scraping Amazon customer reviews from specified review page (with URL as input)

Script for automated scraping of all customer reviews for one or more Amazon products (with product ID/ASIN as input); returns data frame with the following information:

• product ID
• title of review
• author of review
• date
• verified purchase (yes/no)
• format (paperback, kindle etc.)
• stars
• comments
• helpful
• reviewer URL
• reviewer ID

(Basic Amazon scraper adapted and extended from: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rjsaito/Just-R-Things/master/Text%20Mining/amazonscraper.R)