Find Items; Find Out More About Specific Items; Shopping Cart - Amazon Product Advertising API Developer's Manual

Product Advertising API Developer Guide
Summary of Product Advertising API Operations
• Shopping Cart (p. 27)
• Other Operations (p. 28)
In Product Advertising API, the term "operation" is synonymous with the terms function and method.
Product Advertising API operations are included in every request and they cause Product Advertising
API web servers to take some action, for example, to find items in Amazon's databases or to find similar
items. Think of each Product Advertising API operation as a different means of querying Amazon's
databases for information. Product Advertising API does not offer any operations that place information
on Amazon databases.
The following sections provide an overview of Product Advertising API operations.

Find Items

Use the following Product Advertising API operations to return a list of items that satisfy your search
criteria.
Product Advertising API
Operation
ItemSearch
SimilarityLookup

Find Out More About Specific Items

Once you use the Product Advertising API operations in the previous section to get a list of items that
match your search criteria, you can use the following Product Advertising API operations to return additional
information about specific items.
Product Advertising API
Operation
ItemLookup

Shopping Cart

Once customers find items they want to purchase, they put them in a shopping cart. The following Product
Advertising API operations enable you to implement a fully-featured e-commerce shopping cart.
Product Description
Advertising
API Operation
Create a shopping cart and add an item(s).
CartCreate
Add items to the shopping cart
CartAdd
Add to or remove items that are already in a shopping cart.
CartModify
Remove all of the items from a shopping cart
CartClear
Retrieve the contents of a shopping cart with updated price and availability information.
CartGet
Description
Find items that are sold on www.amazon.com by merchants and most
sellers.
Find items that are similar to ones you've already found..
Description
Returns descriptions of specified items.
API Version 2011-08-01
27