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Amazon product feed

Not just itemlookup or itemsearch

         

zulu_dude

6:51 pm on Jul 21, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I've just signed up for the Amazon associates program and have been poking around the associates website for about half an hour now, trying to find the answer to this question:

Is there anywhere that I can get a feed of Amazon's products in a particular category? For instance, can I get a feed of all Widget books that Amazon stocks? Not just a 'search for Widget' function, but an actual listing of all Widget books?

Help from wiser people would be welcome!

Beagle

3:33 pm on Jul 23, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Have you checked out the "web services" part of the associates' site?

jskrewson

5:24 pm on Jul 23, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Beagle is right, the way to do this is via web services. Specifically the ItemSearch api method, passing in a "browseNode" that you are interested in.

Amazon does not provide Datafeed files. I wish they did, it would certainly speed up retrieval of everything they sell. As it is, you have to retrieve 20 products at a time and it can take quite awhile.

zulu_dude

8:15 am on Jul 24, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Ah, ok... so I do need to use itemsearch.

After much experimenting, I'd thought that was the way I needed to go... the only problem was that I couldn't get it to work properly without a search term. But I've just found the AWSzone and have managed to get it working there.

Thanks for the tip...