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author:Davenport
Values are not case sensitive. So, "Davenport" returns the same books as "davenport."
The individual parts of a power search query are linked together using a variety of operators.The following
example searches for all books authored by Davenport that were published during 2006.
author:Davenport and pubdate:during 2006
Other operators, such as parentheses, can be used to create additional specificity. For example, a query
of subject:history and (spain or mexico) and not military and language:spanish
would return a list of books in the Spanish language on the subject of either Spanish or Mexican history,
excluding all items with military in their description.
These parameter values would be part of an ItemSearch request that used the Power parameter, as
shown in the following example.
http://webservices.amazon.com/onca/xml?
Service=AWSECommerceService&
AWSAccessKeyId=[ID]&
Operation=ItemSearch&
SearchIndex=Books&Power=subject:history%20and%20(spain%20or%20mex
ico)%20and%20not%20military%20and%20language:spanish
&Timestamp=[YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ]
&Signature=[Request Signature]
Note that spaces must be URL-encoded (%20) as shown.
Power Search Keywords
Power search queries are created using one or more keyword:value pairs. The keywords you can use in
a power search are described in the following table.
Keyword
after
ASIN
author
author-begins
author-exact
binding
during
EISBN
ISBN
keywords
Power Searches
Description
Restricts the results to books published after the specified date. This keyword
is used with pubdate, for example, pubdate:after 2006.
An alphanumeric token that uniquely identifies a book.
Book's author.
Author's name begins with this value.
Authors name is exactly this value.
Searches for books with the specified binding. Values for binding include
abridged and large print.
Searches for books that were published during the time period specified. This
keyword is used with pubdate, for example, pubdate:during 2006.
Electronic International Standard Book Number of the digital book.
International Standard Book Number of the book.
Words that can be found in the title or description of a book.
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