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		ItemSearch Title parameter
	Offers response group		ItemSearch Condition parameter
	ItemSearch Sort 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 Product Advertising API.