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This What's New is associated with the 2008-04-07 release of the Amazon Associates Web Service (Amazon Associates Web Service). This guide was last updated on 2008-07-10.
The following table describes the important changes to this guide.
| Change | Description | Release Date |
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| The format of the values of the location parameter in a DetailPageURL has changed. |
A DetailPageURL is composed of many parts. One is the location parameter. The format of location values has changed. It was formated as: location=/o/ASIN/B00005R09P The same value in the new format is: location=/Programming-Perl-2nd-Larry-Wall/dp/B00005R09P | 2008-05-19 |
| The RelatedItems response group can now be used with ItemSearch. | In the past, you could use the RelatedItems response group only with ItemLookup. The same functionality has now been extended to ItemSearch. When using this reponse group, you must also include in the request the parameter, RelationshipType, which specifies the type of relationship. Currently, there are fourteen possible values. RelatedItemPage is an added, optional parameter that you use to retrieve additional pages of related items. | 2008-05-19 |
| The JP locale has new sort parameters, releasedate and -releasedate, for the search indices: software, videogames, kitchen, and toys . | The new ItemSearch sort values, releasedate and -releasedate, perform the same function as the previous sort values, release-date and -release-date, which continue to work and sort according to release date. -releasedate means that the items are sorted such that the last released item is listed first. | 2008-04-07 |
| ListLookup has a new parameter, IsOmitPurchasedItems. | If you set IsOmitPurchasedItems=1 in a ListLookup request, items on a wishlist that have been purchased will not be returned in the response. Only those items that have not been purchased or those for which the entire quantity has not been purchased are returned. | 2008-04-07 |
| ListLookup now returns the priority values of the items on a wishlist. | Customers assign a priority value to each item they add to their wishlist. The values can be highest, high, medium (default), low, and lowest. In a ListLookup response, these values are returned in the <Priority> tag. | 2008-04-07 |
| A new sort parameter, Priority, enables ListLookup to sort the results by priority. | Customers assign a priority value to each item they add to their wishlist. The values can be highest, high, medium (default), low, and lowest. When you include Sort=Priority in a ListLookup request, the items are sorted from highest to lowest priority. | 2008-04-07 |
| The IngredientSetElement is now returned with the MerchantItemAttributes response group. | The IngredientSetElement has been returned with the ItemAttributes response group. Now, the same values are also returned with the MerchantItemAttributes response group. | 2008-04-07 |
| The format of image URLs has changed. | The same images are returned as before but the format of their URLs has changed. Previously, image URLs looked like 11dleRLvCkL.jpg. Now, they look like 41koyUV4srL._SL110_.jpg. The appended value. _SL110_, specifies the size of the image. Valid values are SL500, SL160, SL110, SL75, and SL30. These numerical values refer to the number of pixels on the longest side of the image. | 2008-04-07 |
| The ItemAttributes response group now returns additional information about digital items. Digital items are found in the search indices KindleStore, MP3Downloads, and UnboxVideo. | The new tags returned for digital items include LongSynopsis, ShortSynopsis, Studio, SeasonSequence, OriginalAirDate, EpisodeSequence, StartYear, and Genre. | 2008-04-07 |
