Welcome What's New Introduction to the Product Advertising API Programming Guide Getting Set Up Becoming a Product Advertising API Developer Becoming an Associate Reading the Licensing Agreement E-Commerce and Web Services What is E-Commerce? What is a Web Service? What is XML? XML Syntax XML Structures Using XML What is a WSDL? Restricted Parts of the WSDL Anatomy of a WSDL Request Definitions Response Definitions Response Group Definitions PortType Binding Service WSDL Location What is a Schema? Schema Location Product Advertising API Terminology and Basic Concepts The Marketplace What Is the Product Advertising API? How Do I Make Money Using the Product Advertising API? International Locales Items for Sale Summary of Product Advertising API Operations Find Items Find Out More About Specific Items Shopping Cart Other Operations Product Advertising API Developer Community Visual Introduction to Product Advertising API Tools to Find Items Tools to Find Out More About an Item Tools to Implement a Shopping Cart Organization of Items for Sale on Amazon Item Organization Browse Nodes Browse Node Properties Root Category Browse Nodes and Items Browse Node IDs Browse Nodes and Search Indices Finding Browse Nodes Search Indices Search Indices and Locales Variations Variation Parents Returning Variations Variation Images Variation Dimensions Accessories Requests Anatomy of a REST Request Request Limitations REST Syntax Separator Characters Setting Parameter Values Compound Parameters SOAP Requests The Structure of a SOAP Request SOAP Endpoints The XML Message for an ItemSearch SOAP Request Request Authentication What Is Authentication? Your Product Advertising API Account Your AWS Identifiers Viewing Your AWS Identifiers HMAC-SHA Signatures for REST Requests Authentication Parameters Basic Authentication Process Authenticating REST Requests Java Sample Code for Calculating Signature Version 2 Signatures Example REST Requests Authenticating SOAP Requests Using SOAP with WS-Security Using SOAP without WS-Security Batch Requests Batch Requests Parameters That Differ Shared Parameters Performing Multiple ItemLookups in One Request Parameters Common to All Product Advertising API Requests Required Parameters General, Optional Parameters XSL Parameters XML-Encoding Parameters Debugging Parameters Responses Anatomy of a Response Version Information Segment Operation Request Segment Request Validation Segment Paging and Sorting Through Responses Paging Through Results Maximum Number Of Returned Pages Sorting Results Default Sort Values Finding Items to Buy Search Operations Items You Cannot Buy Availability Parameter Parameter Restrictions for Availability Items Sold by Merchants Required ItemSearch Parameters Common ItemSearch Parameters Returning Only Available Items Inaccurate Availabilities Availability Parameter Restrictions and Constraints Power Searches Power Search Syntax Power Search Operators Power Search Tips Using Search Bins to Find Items NarrowBy Attribute NarrowBy Values NarrowBy Values Per Search Index Finding Items Using Browse Nodes Traversing the Browse Node Hierarchy Understanding BrowseNode Results When Drilling Down Motivating Customers to Buy Images Promotions Promotion Categories Benefit and Eligible Items Typical Response Elements Used RSS Feeds for Promotions Suggesting Similar Items to Buy Finding Similar Item IDs Returning Items Similar to Cart Items Using SimilarityLookup Specifying Multiple Items Filtering Similar Items Similar Versions of the Same Item Top Sellers Getting Top Sellers From the Shopping Cart New Releases Sorting by Popularity, Price, or Condition Returning Price and Availability Information Returning Prices Offer Summaries Returning All Offers Returning More Information About the Offer Providing Price Ranges for Product Categories Items That Do Not Have Offers Determining Parent Items Returning Offers From Item Variations Variation Dimensions Determining Availability Availability Values Checking for an Offer Listing ID Using the ItemSearch Availability Parameter Working With Remote Shopping Carts Shopping Cart Concepts Cart Identifiers Remote Shopping Cart Tasks Creating a Remote Shopping Cart Specifying the Items in the CartCreate Request AssociateTag Parameter Using Values Returned by CartCreate in Other Cart Operations Modifying the Items in a Remote Shopping Cart Adding Items to a Cart Adding Items as Saved For Later Removing Items From a Cart Retrieving the Contents of a Cart Add to Cart Form Purchasing the Items in a Remote Shopping Cart Order Pipeline Implementing the Proceed to Checkout Button PurchaseURL Handling Errors and Troubleshooting Applications Syntax and Parameter Errors Processing Error Results and Errors Retrieving Errors Troubleshooting Applications Error Codes and Messages Error Codes Error Messages Best Programming Practices Locale Considerations Locales General Differences Associate IDs Shipping Restrictions API Reference Operations BrowseNodeLookup CartAdd CartClear CartCreate CartGet CartModify ItemLookup ItemSearch SimilarityLookup Common Request Parameters Response Groups Accessories Response Group AlternateVersions Response Group BrowseNodeInfo Response Group BrowseNodes Response Group Cart Response Group CartNewReleases Response Group CartTopSellers Response Group CartSimilarities Response Group Collections Response Group EditorialReview Response Group Images Response Group ItemAttributes Response Group ItemIds Response Group Large Response Group Medium Response Group MostGifted Response Group MostWishedFor Response Group NewReleases Response Group OfferFull Response Group OfferListings Offers Response Group OfferSummary Response Group PromotionSummary Response Group RelatedItems Response Group Request Response Group Reviews Response Group SalesRank Response Group SearchBins Response Group Similarities Response Group Small Response Group TopSellers Response Group Tracks Response Group Variations Response Group Variation Dimensions VariationImages Response Group VariationMatrix Response Group VariationOffers Response Group VariationSummary Response Group Response Elements Common to All Response Groups Response Elements ItemSearch Sort Values By Locale Sort Values for CA Sort Values for CN Sort Values for DE Sort Values for ES Sort Values for FR Sort Values for IT Sort Values for JP Sort Values for UK Sort Values for US Search Index and ItemSearch Parameter Combinations SearchIndex-ItemSearch Parameter Combinations for CA SearchIndex-ItemSearch Parameter Combinations for CN SearchIndex-ItemSearch Parameter Combinations for DE SearchIndex-ItemSearch Parameter Combinations for ES SearchIndex-ItemSearch Parameter Combinations for FR SearchIndex-ItemSearch Parameter Combinations for IT SearchIndex-ItemSearch Parameter Combinations for JP SearchIndex-ItemSearch Parameter Combinations for UK SearchIndex-ItemSearch Parameter Combinations for US Search Index Support by Locale Browse Node IDs MarketplaceDomain parameter Document Conventions Glossary Index