Product Advertising API Developer Guide
AuthorityTitle is similar to a variation parent in that it is an organizational tool (a container) rather than a
real item that you can purchase. They do not have detail pages.
Recommending Items To Others
The Small response group, and its parent response groups, return a Tell Your Friend link that looks similar
to the following:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/taf/B000IHL51S%3FSubscriptionId%3D1C36YNE9WHA6T34AD
PR2%26tag%3Dws%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D386001%26creativeAS
IN%3DB000IHL51S
This link brings up an email so the customer can easily email a friend about the item.
Top Sellers
Topics
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Generalizing the Top Seller (p. 120)
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Getting Top Sellers From the Shopping Cart (p. 121)
Top selling items, by definition, are enjoyed by many people. Items labeled top sellers often spark a
customer's interest.
You can use the BrowseNodeLookup operation with the TopSellers response group to return the top
sellers in a browse node. For example, the following request returns the top sellers in browse node 20.
http://webservices.amazon.com/onca/xml?
Service=AWSECommerceService&
AWSAccessKeyId=[AWS Access Key
Operation=BrowseNodeLookup&
BrowseNodeId=20&
ResponseGroup=TopSellers
&Timestamp=[YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ]
&Signature=[Request Signature]
The following response snippet includes the name and ASIN of the two top selling items in browse node
20.
<TopSeller>
<ASIN>0446578622</ASIN>
<Title>The Notebook Girls</Title>
Recommending Items To Others
ID]&
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