Small Response Group

The Small response group returns basic information about items in a response. The information includes the item's ASIN, DetailPageURL, title, product group, and author.

This response group is often used with ItemLookup, ItemSearch, or SimilarityLookup to return basic information about the items in the response.

Relevant Operations

Operations that can use this response group include:

Response Elements

The following table describes the elements returned by Small. In the Ancestry column, the elements on the left side of a slash mark are the parents of the elements on the right side of the slash mark.

Small 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 Small.

Child Response Group

The following response groups are child response groups of Small.

None

Sample REST Use Case

The following request was used to illustrate the XML response elements returned by Small.

http://ecs.amazonaws.com/onca/xml?
Service=AWSECommerceService&
AWSAccessKey=[AWS Access Key ID]&
Operation=ItemSearch&
Condition=All&
SearchIndex=Blended&
Keywords=Mustan&
Merchant=All&
ResponseGroup=Small&
Version=2008-03-03

Sample Response Snippet

The following response snippet shows the elements returned by Small.

<CorrectedQuery>
  <Keywords>mustang</Keywords> 
  <Message>We found no matches for (keywords=Mustan). Below are results for (keywords=mustang).</Message> 
 </CorrectedQuery>
<Item>
  <ASIN>B0002Y69UO</ASIN> 
  <DetailPageURL>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=ws%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%253fASIN=B0002Y69UO%2526tag=ws%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=/o/ASIN/B0002Y69UO%25253FSubscriptionId=1V9M7E1ZATWETZDS6W82</DetailPageURL> 
  <ItemAttributes>
    <Actor>America's Favorite Cars</Actor> 
    <ProductGroup>DVD</ProductGroup> 
    <Title>America's Favorite Cars - The Complete Mustang 40th Anniversary</Title> 
  </ItemAttributes>
</Item>

Notice that the Keywords value, Mustan, was considered misspelled. The search results were for the word, Mustang, instead.