Amazon Product Advertising API Developer's Manual page 5

Product Advertising API Developer Guide
Common ItemSearch Parameters ............................................................................................... 88
Returning Only Available Items .......................................................................................... 88
Inaccurate Availabilities ...................................................................................................... 89
Availability Parameter Restrictions and Constraints ........................................................... 90
Power Searches .......................................................................................................................... 91
Power Search Syntax ......................................................................................................... 91
Power Search Operators .......................................................................................... 93
Power Search Tips .................................................................................................... 94
Using Search Bins to Find Items ................................................................................................. 95
NarrowBy Attribute ............................................................................................................. 96
NarrowBy Values ................................................................................................................ 97
NarrowBy Values Per Search Index .......................................................................... 98
Finding Items Using Browse Nodes .......................................................................................... 101
Traversing the Browse Node Hierarchy ............................................................................ 102
Understanding BrowseNode Results When Drilling Down ............................................... 104
Motivating Customers to Buy .............................................................................................................. 105
Images ....................................................................................................................................... 105
Promotions ................................................................................................................................ 106
Promotion Categories ...................................................................................................... 106
Benefit and Eligible Items ................................................................................................ 107
Typical Response Elements Used ................................................................................... 108
RSS Feeds for Promotions .............................................................................................. 109
Suggesting Similar Items to Buy ............................................................................................... 112
Finding Similar Item IDs ................................................................................................... 112
Returning Items Similar to Cart Items .............................................................................. 113
Using SimilarityLookup .................................................................................................... 114
Specifying Multiple Items ........................................................................................ 115
Filtering Similar Items ...................................................................................................... 116
Similar Versions of the Same Item ................................................................................... 116
Top Sellers ................................................................................................................................. 119
Getting Top Sellers From the Shopping Cart ................................................................... 121
New Releases ........................................................................................................................... 122
Sorting by Popularity, Price, or Condition .................................................................................. 123
Returning Price and Availability Information ....................................................................................... 125
Returning Prices ........................................................................................................................ 125
Offer Summaries .............................................................................................................. 126
Returning All Offers .......................................................................................................... 127
Returning More Information About the Offer .................................................................... 127
Providing Price Ranges for Product Categories .............................................................. 127
Items That Do Not Have Offers ........................................................................................ 128
Determining Parent Items ................................................................................................ 128
Returning Offers From Item Variations ............................................................................. 129
Variation Dimensions ....................................................................................................... 130
Determining Availability ............................................................................................................. 131
Availability Values ............................................................................................................. 131
Checking for an Offer Listing ID ....................................................................................... 132
Using the ItemSearch Availability Parameter ................................................................... 133
Working With Remote Shopping Carts ............................................................................................... 134
Shopping Cart Concepts ........................................................................................................... 134
Cart Identifiers ................................................................................................................. 134
Remote Shopping Cart Tasks .................................................................................................... 138
Creating a Remote Shopping Cart ................................................................................... 139
Specifying the Items in the CartCreate Request .................................................... 139
AssociateTag Parameter ......................................................................................... 140
Using Values Returned by CartCreate in Other Cart Operations ........................... 141
Modifying the Items in a Remote Shopping Cart .................................................... 142
Adding Items to a Cart ............................................................................................ 142
Adding Items as Saved For Later .................................................................. 143