Subjects Response Group

The Subjects response group returns a book’s Subject description, which characterizes the book’s content.

This response group is often used with ItemSearch and ItemLookup to return the subjects by which a book can be categorized.

Relevant Operations

Operations that can use this response group include:

Response Elements

The following table describes the elements returned by Subjects.

Subject

Subjects 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 Subjects.

None

Child Response Group

The following response groups are child response groups of Subjects.

None

Sample REST Use Case

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

http://ecs.amazonaws.com/onca/xml?
Service=AWSECommerceService&
AWSAccessKeyId=[AWS Access Key ID]&
Operation=ItemSearch&
Condition=All&
SearchIndex=Blended&
Keywords=Brando&
Merchant=All&
ResponseGroup=Subjects&
Version=2008-08-19
&Timestamp=[YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ]
&Signature=[Request Signature]

Sample Response Snippet

The following response snippet shows the elements returned by Subjects.

<Item>
 <ASIN>9589393314</ASIN>
 <Subjects>
   <Subject>Central America</Subject>
   <Subject>Colombia</Subject>
   <Subject>Natural history</Subject>
   <Subject>Travel / South America</Subject>
 </Subjects>