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Except that I can't export that data from amazon easily if I, say, change or delete my account, or just want to run a program on my own data.

Whereas that is pretty easy with any sort of email client.



Yes, you can. Go to https://www.amazon.com/gp/b2b/reports and you can generate a report of items, orders, returns, or refunds for a time period you select. It generates a .csv file.

The report contains far more information than you can scrape from their old order emails, including: Date, ID, Title, Category, ASIN/ISBN, UNSPSC, Condition, Seller, List Price, Purchase Price, Quantity, Payment Instrument, Shipping Address, Carrier, and more


Damn, I've been searching for that for a while. It used to be linked from the order history page and isn't anymore. I thought they had removed that feature. It is a bit annoying that I can get a CSV from my bank in under a second, but it takes a few minutes to get an order report for a similar date range from amazon.


They did fully remove it about a year ago. At the time, the official support response was to point people at the GDPR export. Based on my email from when I requested a GDPR style export, that was around 2020-09-15.

It was just in the past week or so that I noticed that it's back.

It's on your main account page under "Download order reports"


I actually export the data from Amazon every year. They have nice CSV reports with all orders and all products, including cost, category, ASIN, etc. I wish there was a way to hook that up into mint.com to auto-categorize Amazon purchases.

I noticed they stopped including product details in emails a few years ago, didn't click until reading it now that they're doing it to prevent data mining. Kind of makes sense if you think about it, but maybe they should have an option for that for people that self-host their e-mail or use privacy-focused providers.




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