Table Of Contents - Amazon Product Advertising API Developer's Manual

Table of Contents

Welcome ............................................................................................................................................................. 1
What's New ........................................................................................................................................................ 4
Introduction to the Product Advertising API ........................................................................................................ 5
Programming Guide ........................................................................................................................................... 7
Getting Set Up ........................................................................................................................................ 8
Becoming a Product Advertising API Developer ........................................................................... 8
Becoming an Associate ................................................................................................................. 9
Reading the Licensing Agreement .............................................................................................. 10
E-Commerce and Web Services ......................................................................................................... 11
What is E-Commerce? ................................................................................................................ 11
What is a Web Service? .............................................................................................................. 12
What is XML? .............................................................................................................................. 12
XML Syntax ........................................................................................................................ 13
XML Structures .................................................................................................................. 13
Using XML ......................................................................................................................... 13
What is a WSDL? ........................................................................................................................ 14
Restricted Parts of the WSDL ............................................................................................ 14
Anatomy of a WSDL ........................................................................................................... 14
WSDL Location .................................................................................................................. 20
What is a Schema? ..................................................................................................................... 21
Schema Location ............................................................................................................... 21
Product Advertising API Terminology and Basic Concepts .................................................................. 22
The Marketplace .......................................................................................................................... 22
What Is the Product Advertising API? ......................................................................................... 23
How Do I Make Money Using the Product Advertising API? ....................................................... 23
International Locales ................................................................................................................... 23
Items for Sale .............................................................................................................................. 24
Summary of Product Advertising API Operations ....................................................................... 26
Find Items ......................................................................................................................... 27
Find Out More About Specific Items .................................................................................. 27
Shopping Cart .................................................................................................................... 27
Other Operations ............................................................................................................... 28
Product Advertising API Developer Community .......................................................................... 28
Visual Introduction to Product Advertising API ..................................................................................... 28
Tools to Find Items ...................................................................................................................... 28
Tools to Find Out More About an Item ......................................................................................... 29
Tools to Implement a Shopping Cart ........................................................................................... 30
Organization of Items for Sale on Amazon ........................................................................................... 31
Item Organization ........................................................................................................................ 31
Browse Nodes ............................................................................................................................. 32
Browse Node Properties .................................................................................................... 33
Browse Nodes and Items ................................................................................................... 34
Browse Node IDs ............................................................................................................... 35
Browse Nodes and Search Indices .................................................................................... 35
Finding Browse Nodes ....................................................................................................... 36
Search Indices ............................................................................................................................. 38
Search Indices and Locales ............................................................................................... 39
Variations ..................................................................................................................................... 40
Product Advertising API Developer Guide
Request Definitions .................................................................................................. 16
Response Definitions ................................................................................................ 17
Response Group Definitions ........................................................................... 18
PortType .......................................................................................................... 19
Binding ...................................................................................................................... 19
Service ..................................................................................................................... 20
Root Category .......................................................................................................... 33