amazon query string 1

[skiflyer]

I'm writing up a little in house library that deals with ISBN's, and I was wondering if anyone knew where to get the documentation for Amazon's query string. I'd like to be able to automatically generate a link which just takes me to the amazon page for that book. I can't use Title's because they're not unique enough.

I've been playing with their SOAP interface, and may go that route, but am having some difficulties with that right now, and am uncertain if they're overcomeable in my environment (i.e. corporate firewall issues)

So, if anyone knows, please let me in on the secrets

-Rob

 

[sleipnir214]

You might take a look a NuSOAP:

http://dietrich.ganx4.com/nusoap/

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[sleipnir214]

Better still, take a look here:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2003/07/03/php_amazon_soap.html

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[skiflyer]

Thanks, those were exactly the things I was working with, I remember toying with them from home and they were just dumb simple, but from work I'm running into snags, and am making the assumption it's just a simple matter of our firewall.

In the meantime it appears to me that...

[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/$isbn[/URL]

Is taking me to my desired page, and without the short delays it takes to run the webservice. But I just can't find any documentation that lets me know in 6 months that that same URL is going to work.

-Rob

 

[sleipnir214]

Download the developer's kit.

The API documentation in the kit states:

<quote>
ASIN and ISBN Searches via XML

Every unique product in Amazon.com's catalog has an &quot;ASIN&quot;, which is short for &quot;Amazon Standard Item Number&quot;. (For our books category, a book's ASIN is the same as its &quot;International Standard Book Number&quot;, or &quot;ISBN&quot. You can find a product's ASIN in one of two ways:
It should be listed in the fine print on a product's detail page.
Alternatively, you can look in the URL of that same detail page. In most cases, the format of the URL should start like this:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/nnnnnnnnnn/.

The ASIN number is the 10-digit number that appears directly after &quot;ASIN&quot;.

As an example, the following product’s ASIN would be 043935806X:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/043935806X

</quote>


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