Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services
- Sample URL
- Amazon Web Services Readme

Sample URL

http://xml.amazon.com/onca/xml2?t=webservices-20
  &dev-t=D3MQGVWPX8DFRM
  &PowerSearch=subject:ruby%20and%20programming%20and%20title:ruby
  &mode=books
  &type=lite
  &page=1
  &f=http://www.brayden.org/amaxsl1.xsl

The last parameter in this example specifies the xsl stylesheet. View the example.

Topic : AwsReadme

Amazon Web Services Readme

Overview

Thanks for downloading the Amazon.com Web Services software development kit

2.1. Two audiences who will find this document useful are:

1.Web site owners who want to enhance their web site with Amazon content and features.

2.Developers who wish to experiment with or create applications built on Amazon.com Web Services.

The first Web services that we have exposed are:

Product Display - The ability to search for and retrieve product information from the Amazon.com catalog, including filtering for products sold by specific third-party sellers.
Shopping Cart - The ability to add Amazon.com products to shopping carts, wish lists, and registries from third party locations.

This document should contain all you need to get started. We have provided a forum to discuss Amazon.com Web Services with other developers at http://forums.prospero.com/am-assocdevxml/start/. If you have feedback you'd like to send us, please feel free to do so - you can contact us at webservices@amazon.com.

In order to use Amazon.com Web Services, you will first need to register and obtain a valid developer token. You can get your token here: http://associates.amazon.com/exec/panama/associates/join/developer/application.html.

This release of Amazon.com Web Services is a beta release. The full terms of use are described in the file COM_LICENSE.TXT included in this kit.

Contents of the Kit

This development kit includes:

Amazon.com Web Services API and Integration Guide
Example XSLT style sheets
Examples of "lite" and "heavy" XML documents
Sample SOAP requests and responses
Code samples in Java and PHP
A Web services VBA macro for Microsoft Word
A marketplace seller price tracking program that uses Web services
The Amazon.com Web Services license
An Open Source license for the Java code sample

Technical Documents

Other documents can be found at the following URIs:

"lite" DTD: http://xml.amazon.com/schemas2/dev-lite.dtd
"heavy" DTD: http://xml.amazon.com/schemas2/dev-heavy.dtd
"lite" XSD: http://xml.amazon.com/schemas2/dev-lite.xsd
"heavy" XSD: http://xml.amazon.com/schemas2/dev-heavy.xsd
SOAP WSDL: http://soap.amazon.com/schemas2/AmazonWebServices.wsdl

Please note that you will not be able to view the DTDs with Internet Explorer.

-- DaleBrayden - 26 Jun 2003

AmazonWebServicesAPIandIntegrationGuide.htm: Amazon Web Services Guide (html)
qguide1.html: Extract from the integration guide