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Amazon Product Advertising API Developer's Manual

Amazon Product Advertising API Developer's Manual (484 pages)

API Version 2011-08-01

Brand: Amazon | Category: Software | Size: 3.55 MB

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
3
Welcome
8
What's New
11
Introduction to the Product Advertising API
12
Programming Guide
14
- Getting Set up
  15
- E-Commerce and Web Services
  18
  - What Is E-Commerce
    18
  - What Is a Web Service
    19
  - What Is XML
    19
    
    Using XML
    20
    
    XML Structures
    20
    
    XML Syntax
    20
  - What Is a WSDL
    21
    
    Anatomy of a WSDL
    21
    
    Restricted Parts of the WSDL
    21
    
    Request Definitions
    23
    
    Response Definitions
    24
    
    Response Group Definitions
    25
    
    Binding
    26
    
    Porttype
    26
    
    Service
    27
    
    WSDL Location
    27
  - What Is a Schema
    28
    
    Schema Location
    28
- Product Advertising API Terminology and Basic Concepts
  29
  - The Marketplace
    29
  - What Is the Product Advertising API
    30
  - How Do I Make Money Using the Product Advertising API
    30
  - International Locales
    30
  - Items for Sale
    31
  - Summary of Product Advertising API Operations
    33
    
    Find Items
    34
    
    Find out more about Specific Items
    34
    
    Shopping Cart
    34
    
    Other Operations
    35
  - Product Advertising API Developer Community
    35
- Visual Introduction to Product Advertising API
  35
- Organization of Items for Sale on Amazon
  38
  - Item Organization
    38
  - Browse Nodes
    39
    
    Browse Node Properties
    40
    
    Root Category
    40
    
    Browse Nodes and Items
    41
    
    Browse Node Ids
    42
    
    Browse Nodes and Search Indices
    42
    
    Finding Browse Nodes
    43
  - Search Indices
    45
    
    Search Indices and Locales
    46
  - Variations
    47
    
    Returning Variations
    48
    
    Variation Parents
    48
    
    Variation Images
    50
    
    Variation Dimensions
    51
  - Accessories
    51
- Requests
  53
  - Anatomy of a REST Request
    53
  - Request Limitations
    56
  - REST Syntax
    56
    
    Compound Parameters
    57
    
    Separator Characters
    57
    
    Setting Parameter Values
    57
  - SOAP Requests
    58
    
    SOAP Endpoints
    59
    
    The Structure of a SOAP Request
    59
    
    The XML Message for an Itemsearch SOAP Request
    60
  - Request Authentication
    60
    
    What Is Authentication
    61
    
    Your AWS Identifiers
    61
    
    Your Product Advertising API Account
    61
    
    HMAC-SHA Signatures for REST Requests
    62
    
    Viewing Your AWS Identifiers
    62
    
    Authentication Parameters
    63
    
    Basic Authentication Process
    63
    
    Authenticating REST Requests
    64
    
    Java Sample Code for Calculating Signature Version 2 Signatures
    66
    
    Example REST Requests
    68
    
    Authenticating SOAP Requests
    73
    
    Using SOAP with WS-Security
    73
    
    Using SOAP Without WS-Security
    78
  - Batch Requests
    79
    
    Parameters that Differ
    80
    
    Performing Multiple Itemlookups in One Request
    81
    
    Shared Parameters
    81
  - Parameters Common to All Product Advertising API Requests
    82
    
    Required Parameters
    82
    
    General, Optional Parameters
    83
    
    XSL Parameters
    83
    
    Debugging Parameters
    84
    
    XML-Encoding Parameters
    84
  - Responses
    84
    
    Anatomy of a Response
    85
    
    Version Information Segment
    85
    
    Operation Request Segment
    86
    
    Request Validation Segment
    86
  - Paging and Sorting through Responses
    88
    
    Paging through Results
    88
    
    Maximum Number of Returned Pages
    89
    
    Default Sort Values
    90
    
    Sorting Results
    90
- Finding Items to Buy
  91
  - Search Operations
    91
  - Items You Cannot Buy
    91
    
    Availability Parameter
    92
    
    Parameter Restrictions for Availability
    93
  - Items Sold by Merchants
    93
    
    Required Itemsearch Parameters
    94
  - Common Itemsearch Parameters
    95
    
    Returning Only Available Items
    95
    
    Inaccurate Availabilities
    96
    
    Availability Parameter Restrictions and Constraints
    97
  - Power Searches
    98
    
    Power Search Syntax
    98
    
    Power Search Operators
    100
    
    Power Search Tips
    101
  - Using Search Bins to Find Items
    102
    
    Narrowby Attribute
    103
    
    Narrowby Values
    104
    
    Narrowby Values Per Search Index
    105
  - Finding Items Using Browse Nodes
    108
    
    Traversing the Browse Node Hierarchy
    109
    
    Understanding Browsenode Results When Drilling down
    111
- Motivating Customers to Buy
  112
  - Images
    112
  - Promotions
    113
    
    Promotion Categories
    113
    
    Benefit and Eligible Items
    114
    
    Typical Response Elements Used
    115
    
    RSS Feeds for Promotions
    116
  - Suggesting Similar Items to Buy
    119
    
    Finding Similar Item Ids
    119
    
    Returning Items Similar to Cart Items
    120
    
    Using Similaritylookup
    121
    
    Specifying Multiple Items
    122
    
    Filtering Similar Items
    123
    
    Similar Versions of the same Item
    123
  - Top Sellers
    126
    
    Getting Top Sellers from the Shopping Cart
    128
  - New Releases
    129
  - Sorting by Popularity, Price, or Condition
    130
- Returning Price and Availability Information
  132
  - Returning Prices
    132
    
    Offer Summaries
    133
    
    Providing Price Ranges for Product Categories
    134
    
    Returning All Offers
    134
    
    Returning more Information about the Offer
    134
    
    Determining Parent Items
    135
    
    Items that Do Not Have Offers
    135
    
    Returning Offers from Item Variations
    136
    
    Variation Dimensions
    137
  - Determining Availability
    138
    
    Availability Values
    138
    
    Checking for an Offer Listing ID
    139
    
    Using the Itemsearch Availability Parameter
    140
- Working with Remote Shopping Carts
  141
  - Shopping Cart Concepts
    141
    
    Cart Identifiers
    141
  - Remote Shopping Cart Tasks
    145
    
    Creating a Remote Shopping Cart
    146
    
    Specifying the Items in the Cartcreate Request
    146
    
    Associatetag Parameter
    147
    
    Using Values Returned by Cartcreate in Other Cart Operations
    148
    
    Adding Items to a Cart
    149
    
    Modifying the Items in a Remote Shopping Cart
    149
    
    Adding Items as Saved for Later
    150
    
    Removing Items from a Cart
    151
    
    Retrieving the Contents of a Cart
    152
  - Add to Cart Form
    153
- Purchasing the Items in a Remote Shopping Cart
  154
  - Order Pipeline
    154
  - Implementing the Proceed to Checkout Button
    155
    
    Purchaseurl
    155
- Handling Errors and Troubleshooting Applications
  156
  - Syntax and Parameter Errors
    156
    
    Processing Error
    157
    
    Results and Errors
    158
  - Retrieving Errors
    158
  - Troubleshooting Applications
    158
  - Error Codes and Messages
    159
    
    Error Codes
    159
    
    Error Messages
    160
- Best Programming Practices
  165
- Locale Considerations
  167
  - Locales
    168
  - General Differences
    169
  - Associate Ids
    169
  - Shipping Restrictions
    169
API Reference
171
- Operations
  171
  - Browsenodelookup
    172
  - Sample Response
    174
  - Cartadd
    175
  - Cartclear
    180
  - Cartcreate
    182
  - Cartget
    188
  - Cartmodify
    192
  - Itemlookup
    196
  - Itemsearch
    203
  - Similaritylookup
    213
- Common Request Parameters
  217
- Response Groups
  220
  - Accessories Response Group
    220
  - Response Elements
    221
  - Alternateversions Response Group
    222
  - Browsenodeinfo Response Group
    224
  - Browsenodes Response Group
    226
  - Cart Response Group
    228
  - Cartnewreleases Response Group
    231
  - Carttopsellers Response Group
    232
  - Cartsimilarities Response Group
    233
  - Collections Response Group
    235
  - Editorialreview Response Group
    237
  - Images Response Group
    238
  - Itemattributes Response Group
    241
  - Itemids Response Group
    244
  - Large Response Group
    246
  - Medium Response Group
    251
  - Mostgifted Response Group
    255
  - Mostwishedfor Response Group
    256
  - Newreleases Response Group
    258
  - Offerfull Response Group
    259
  - Sample Rest Use Case
    260
  - Offerlistings
    261
  - Offers Response Group
    263
  - Offersummary Response Group
    267
  - Promotionsummary Response Group
    269
  - Relateditems Response Group
    272
  - Request Response Group
    274
  - Reviews Response Group
    275
  - Salesrank Response Group
    277
  - Searchbins Response Group
    278
  - Similarities Response Group
    284
  - Small Response Group
    285
  - Topsellers Response Group
    287
  - Tracks Response Group
    288
  - Variations Response Group
    290
    
    Variation Dimensions
    290
  - Variationimages Response Group
    293
  - Variationmatrix Response Group
    295
  - Variationoffers Response Group
    297
  - Variationsummary Response Group
    300
- Response Elements Common to All Response Groups
  302
- Response Elements
  303
- Itemsearch Sort Values by Locale
  321
  - Sort Values for CA
    322
  - Sort Values for CN
    325
  - Sort Values for de
    334
  - Sort Values for es
    347
  - Sort Values for FR
    351
  - Sort Values for IT
    361
  - Sort Values for JP
    366
  - Sort Values for UK
    377
  - Sort Values for US
    389
- Search Index and Itemsearch Parameter Combinations
  405
- Search Index Support by Locale
  470
- Browse Node Ids
  472
- Marketplacedomain Parameter
  474
Glossary
475
Document Conventions
478
Index
481

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