Visual Introduction to Amazon Associates Web Service

Topics

Tools to Find Items
Tools to Find Out More About an Item
Tools to Get Seller Information
Tools to Implement a Shopping Cart

The previous chapter gave an overview of all Amazon Associates Web Service operations. Sometimes it is helpful to see them in action. Amazon Associates Web Service functionality is implemented on www.amazon.com. This chapter provides a series of screenshots from www.amazon.com. The parts of the web pages that demonstrate Amazon Associates Web Service functionality are labeled.

The labels show three kinds of implementations:

Operations
Response groups
Elements in the response

Amazon Associates Web Service only provides data; it does not provide HTML. 'We show one way of displaying Amazon Associates Web Service on our retail web site, www.amazon.com. You might find a better way.