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SalesRank Response Group

The SalesRank response group returns the sales rank for each item in the response. One is the highest rating; a large number means the item has not sold well. Sales rank is per Searh Index so it is possible to have several items in one response ranked, for example, as 1.

Relevant Operations

Operations that can use this response group include:

Response Elements

The following table describes the elements returned by SalesRank. The elements on the left side of a slash mark are the parents of the elements on the right side of the slash mark.

Response Element	Ancestry	Definition
`ASIN`	Item/ASIN	A positive integer distributed by Amazon that uniquely identifies an item.
`SalesRank`	Item/SalesRank	Indicates how well an item is selling within its product category. The lower the number, the better the item has sold.
`TotalPages`	Items/TotalPages	Total number of pages found. One page is returned per response. Each page contains up to ten items.
`TotalResults`	Items/TotalResults	Total number of items found.

SalesRank also returns the elements that all response groups return, which is described in Elements Common to All Response Groups.

Parent Response Group

The following response groups are parent response groups of SalesRank.

None

Child Response Group

The following response groups are child response groups of SalesRank.

None

Sample REST Use Case

The folllowing request was used to illustrate the XML response elements returned by SalesRank.

http://ecs.amazonaws.com/onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService&
AWSAccessKeyId=[Access Key ID]&
Operation=ItemLookup&
ItemId=0976925524&
ResponseGroup=SalesRank

Sample Response Snippet

The following response snippet shows the elements returned by SalesRank.

<Item>
  <ASIN>0976925524</ASIN> 
  <SalesRank>68</SalesRank> 
</Item>