SellerListingLookup

The SellerListingLookup operation enables you to return information about a seller's listings, including product descriptions, availability, condition, and quantity available. The response also includes the seller's nickname. Each request requires a seller ID.

You can also find a seller's items using ItemLookup. There are, however, some reasons why it is better to use SellerListingLookup:

This operation only works with sellers who have less than 100,000 items for sale. Sellers that have more items for sale should use, instead of Amazon Associates Web Service, other APIs, including the Amazon Inventory Management System, and the Merchant@ API.

All locales.

Use SellerListingLookup in the following ways:

The following table describes the request parameters for SellerListingLookup. Parameter names are case sensitive.

ParameterDefinitionRequired
Id

Number that uniquely identifies an item. The valid value depends on the value for IdType.

Default: None

Valid Values:Exchange ID | Listing ID | ASIN | SKU

Yes
IdType

Use the IdType parameter to specify the value type of the Id parameter value. If you are looking up an Amazon Marketplace item, use Exchange, ASIN, or SKU as the value for IdType. Discontinued, out of stock, or unavailable products will not be returned if IdType is Listing, SKU, or ASIN. Those products will be returned, however, if IdType is Exchange.

Default: None

Valid Values: Exchange | Listing | ASIN | SKU

Yes
SellerId

Alphanumeric token that uniquely identifies a seller. This parameter limits the results to a single seller ID.

Default: None

Valid Values: Valid Seller ID

Yes except when IdType = Exchange
ResponseGroup

Specifies the types of values to return. You can specify multiple response groups in one request by separating them with commas.

Default: SellerListing (Default)

No

SellerListingLookup also accepts the parameters that all operations can use. For more information, see, Common Request Parameters.

The following XML is a snippet of the full response to the first sample request.

<SellerListing>
  <ExchangeId>Y02Y3120110Y3481102</ExchangeId> 
  <ListingId>0411W027887</ListingId> 
  <Title>Spartas, Dale C. (photographs by) and Steve Smith (text by): Just Labs</Title> 
  <Price>
    <Amount>2200</Amount> 
    <CurrencyCode>USD</CurrencyCode> 
    <FormattedPrice>$22.00</FormattedPrice> 
  </Price>
  <StartDate>2001-04-11</StartDate> 
  <EndDate>2004-03-26</EndDate> 
  <Status>Open</Status> 
  <Quantity>1</Quantity> 
  <QuantityAllocated>0</QuantityAllocated> 
  <Availability>Usually ships within 1-2 business days</Availability> 
  <FeaturedCategory>68297</FeaturedCategory> 
  <Seller>
    <SellerId>A3U5ACHDJ10963</SellerId> 
    <Nickname>alphabooks</Nickname> 
  </Seller>
</SellerListing> 

The following table describes the default response tags included in SellerListingLookup responses.

Element TagDefinition
Amount Price of the item in terms of the lowest currency denomination, for example, pennies.
Availability How quickly the item will be shipped.
CurrencyCode Format for the display of the money
EndDate End of life for the item’s sale.
ExchangeId Token that uniquely identifies an offer in the Marketplace. Exchange IDs are available for every item offered by a third-party seller. When using ExchangeId, you must also specify a matching SellerID and ASIN.
FeaturedCategory Browsenode ID of a featured category, which is determined by business arrangements between Amazon and a seller. This value is not returned for JP, FR, and CA.
FormattedPrice The price to display on the web site.
ListingId Token that uniquely identifies an item.
NickName String that identifies the seller.
Price Container for pricing information, including Amount, CurrencyCode, FormattedPrice.
Quantity Number of items in stock.
QuantityAllocated Number of items sold or unavailable. Subtract this value from the Quantity value to determine availability.
Seller Container for seller information, including, SellerId and Nickname
SellerId Token that identifies the seller.
StartDate First day the item went on sale.
Status Specifies whether the product is still available (Open), or not (Closed.) Closed products are those that are discontinued, out of stock, or unavailable.
Title Title of the item.

For more information about the parent elements of these tags, see the appropriate response group in Response Groups.