Similarities Response Group

The Similarities response group returns titles and ASINs of five items that are similar to the one specified in the request.

This response group is often used in conjunction with ItemLookup to return items that are similar to the one specified in the request.

Relevant Operations

Operations that can use this response group include:

Response Elements

The following table describes the elements returned by Similarities.

Similarities 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 Similarities.

None

Child Response Group

The following response groups are child response groups of Similarities.

None

Sample REST Use Case

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

http://ecs.amazonaws.com/onca/xml?
Service=AWSECommerceService&
AWSAccessKey=[AWS Access Key ID]&
Operation=ItemSearch&
Condition=All&
SearchIndex=Blended&
Keywords=Mustang&
Merchant=All&
ResponseGroup=Similarities
&Timestamp=[YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ]
&Signature=[Request Signature]

Sample Response Snippet

The following response snippet shows the elements returned by Similarities.

<SimilarProduct>
  <ASIN>B00004GJVO</ASIN>
  <Title>Minor Move</Title>
</SimilarProduct>