Tools to Find Items

Typically, the first task a customer undertakes is searching for an item. The following web page from www.amazon.com shows the implementation of this task using, in particular, ItemSearch and ItemLookup requests.

ItemSearch SearchIndex parameter Images response group
ItemSearch Keywords parameter CustomerReviews response group
BrowseNodeLookup Availability element returned by ItemsSearch Availability parameter
ItemLookup SearchBins response group
Author ItemSearch parameter AlternateVersions response group
Offers response group ItemSearch Title parameter
ItemSearch Sort parameter ItemSearch Condition parameter
Child Browsenodes  

The top entry fields show a drop down menu equal to search indices, and a text entry box for a keyword. Both of these parameter values are required for an ItemSearch request. The result, shown in this page, displays many of the elements returned by the ItemAttributes response group.

The following figure shows the functionality not supported by Amazon Associates Web Service.