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Build an AI Shopping Agent with BuyWhere MCP in 10 Minutes

DEV Community·BuyWhere·30 days ago
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AI agents are great at conversation, but terrible at shopping. Ask Claude "what's the best 4K monitor under $800 SGD?" and it'll give you a thoughtful essay — but no real prices, no real stock, and no way to actually buy anything. That's because product data is locked inside e-commerce storefronts, scattered across platform-specific APIs, or hidden behind CAPTCHAs and rate limits. If you've tried to build an agent that answers real commerce questions with real prices, you know the pain. BuyWhere fixes that. We're an agent-native product catalog API with an MCP server that indexes 1M+ products from Shopee, Lazada, Amazon SG, Carousell, FairPrice, Harvey Norman, Courts, Challenger, and 50+ merchants into a single endpoint. One tool call. Real product data. No scraping. What is MCP and why it matters The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that lets AI agents connect to external tools and data sources. Think of it as a USB-C port for AI — one universal connector, thousands of capabilities.…

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