Amazon Product Advertising API Developer's Manual page 234

Product Advertising API Developer Guide
• Have been viewed by customers who also viewed the the item specified in the request. These results,
tagged in the XML response with <SimilarViewedProducts> and <SimilarViewedProduct>, are displayed
on the retail web site under the heading, "Customers who viewed this [item] also viewed"
• Can be found in other categories that are similar to the item specified in the request. These results,
tagged in the XML response with <OtherCategoriesSimilarProducts> and
<OtherCategoriesSimilarProduct>, are displayed on the retail web site under the heading, "Explore
Similar Items," which falls under the heading, "Customers who bought this [item] also bought."
This response group returns a number of items similar to the one the customer added to the shopping
cart. The response group is used typically to spur the customer's interest in purchasing additional items.
Relevant Operations
Operations that can use this response group include:
• CartAdd (p. 168)
• CartCreate (p. 175)
• CartModify (p. 185)
• CartGet (p. 181)
Response Elements
The following table describes the elements returned by CartSimilarities.
• ASIN (p. 297)
• OtherCategoriesSimilarProducts (p. 307)
• SimilarProducts (p. 310)
• SimilarViewedProducts (p. 310)
• Title (p. 311)
CartSimilarities also returns the elements that all response groups return, as described in
Common to All Response Groups (p.
Parent Response Group
The following response groups are parent response groups of CartSimilarities.
• None
Child Response Group
The following response groups are child response groups of CartSimilarities.
• None
Sample REST Use Case
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CartSimilarities Response Group
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