Amazon Hacks,9780596005429

Amazon Hacks

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780596005429
ISBN10: 0596005423
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-08-01
Publisher(s): Oreilly & Associates Inc
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Summary

With this collection of tips and tools in Amazon Hacks, users can get the most out of Amazon.com, whether they're avid Amazon shoppers, Amazon Associates developing online storefronts, sellers listing products for sale on Amazon.com, or programmers building applications based on the rich Amazon Web Services API.

Author Biography

  1. Paul Bausch

    Paul Bausch is an accomplished web application developer, and is the co-creator of the popular weblog software Blogger. Among his recent applications is BookWatch, a site that scans weblogs for book mentions, analyzes them to find the most frequently mentioned books, and uses the Amazon API to display the results. Paul is also an accomplished writer, and is the co-author of We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Credits ix
Foreword xiii
Preface xv
Browsing and Searching
1(30)
Introduction: Amazon Product Pages
1(4)
Find a Product's ASIN
5(2)
Find a CD's ASIN with the UPC
7(1)
Jump to a Product Using Its ASIN
8(1)
Create Shorter URLs
9(1)
Link Directly to Product Images
10(3)
Switch to a Text-Only Amazon
13(1)
Take Amazon Anywhere
14(1)
Browse and Search Categories with Browse Nodes
15(4)
Power-Search for Books
19(2)
Search Amazon from the IE Address Bar
21(2)
Search Amazon from Any Web Page in IE
23(2)
Add an Amazon Sidebar Search to Mozilla
25(6)
Controlling Your Information
31(32)
Understand Identity at Amazon
31(4)
Fine-Tune Your Recommendations
35(3)
Enable 1-Click Buying
38(1)
Set Up a Group Account
39(2)
Create an ``About You'' Area
41(2)
Create a Wish List
43(3)
Add Items to a Wish List Remotely
46(1)
Add Multiple Items to a Wish List at Once
46(3)
Organize Your Wish List by Priority
49(4)
Set Email and Messages Preferences
53(1)
Get Movie Showtimes
54(2)
Create an Amazon Event Reminder
56(1)
Create Several Birthday Reminders at Once
57(4)
Best Practices for Your Amazon Account
61(2)
Participating in the Amazon Community
63(47)
Introduction: Community Features
63(2)
Accessing Community Features
65(1)
Write a Review
66(2)
Link Directly to Reviews of a Product
68(2)
Post a Review from a Remote Site
70(2)
Add Pop-up Amazon Reviews to Your Web Site
72(2)
Send an Email Alert if a Review Is Added to a Product
74(3)
Sort Books by Average Customer Rating
77(1)
Sort Your Recommendations by Average Customer Rating
78(3)
Scrape Product Reviews
81(1)
Publish Your Amazon Reviews on Your Site
82(2)
Share the Love (and Savings!) with Your Friends
84(2)
Create a Guide
86(2)
Post a Guide Remotely
88(1)
Add Product Advice Remotely
89(2)
Scrape Customer Advice
91(2)
Create a Listmania! List
93(2)
Gather Your Friends on Amazon
95(1)
Gather Your Friends' Amazon IDs
96(2)
Get Purchase Circle Products with Screen Scraping
98(2)
Find Purchase Circles by Zip Code
100(2)
Track the Ranks of Books Over Time
102(2)
Group Conversations About Books
104(3)
Add a ``Currently Reading'' List to Your Web Site
107(3)
Selling Through Amazon
110(32)
Introduction: Understanding Amazon's Sales Programs
110(5)
Sell a Book with Amazon Marketplace
115(3)
Speed Up the Listing Process
118(1)
List Several Items for Sale at Once
119(4)
Sell What People Want
123(3)
Scope Out the Marketplace Competition
126(2)
List Your Items for Sale on Your Web Site
128(4)
Put an Item Up for Bid at Amazon Auctions
132(1)
Get (and Keep!) a Good Seller Rating
133(2)
Collect Donations from Your Web Site with the Honor System
135(5)
Show the Progress of Your Honor System Fund on Your Site
140(2)
Associates Program
142(47)
Introduction: Make Money by Linking to Amazon
142(3)
Build Associate Links
145(4)
Sell Items from Your Site
149(2)
Sell Items with Pop-up Windows
151(3)
Create Banner Ads for Your Site
154(3)
Rotate Through Several Keyword Banners on Your Site
157(3)
Add an Amazon Search Box to Your Site
160(1)
Show Amazon Search Results on Your Site
161(7)
Create an Online Store
168(3)
Donate to Charities Through Associate Links
171(1)
Format a Review for Your Site
172(1)
Create Amazon Associate Links on Your Movable Type Weblog
173(2)
Simplify Amazon Associate Links in Your Blosxom Weblog
175(2)
Add an Amazon Box to Your Site
177(2)
Deep Linking to Amazon's Mobile Device Pages
179(4)
Measure Your Associate Sales
183(2)
Publish Your Associate Sales Statistics on Your Site
185(3)
Associates Program Best Practices
188(1)
Amazon Web Services
189(80)
Introduction: What Are Web Services?
189(2)
Why Expose an API?
191(1)
What You Need
191(1)
What You Can Do
192(1)
Making Requests
193(1)
The RESTful Way: XML/HTTP
194(2)
SOAP Web Services
196(1)
Working With Responses
197(2)
View XML Responses in a Browser
199(1)
Embed Product Details into a Web Page with PHP
200(2)
Program AWS with PHP
202(2)
Program AWS with Python
204(2)
Program AWS with Perl
206(2)
Loop Around the 10-Result Limit
208(2)
Program XML/HTTP with VBScript
210(2)
Transform AWS Results to HTML with XSLT
212(3)
Work Around Products Without Images
215(2)
Syndicate a List of Books with RSS
217(6)
Import Data Directly into Excel
223(7)
Program AWS with SOAP and VB.NET
230(2)
Program AWS with SOAP::Lite and Perl
232(2)
Program AWS with NuSOAP and PHP
234(1)
Create a Wireless Wish List
235(3)
Make Product Titles Shorter
238(1)
Encode Text for URLs
239(1)
Cache Amazon Images Locally
240(2)
Cache AWS Responses Locally
242(3)
Create an Amazon AIM Bot
245(3)
Compare International Sales
248(3)
Program AWS with Mozilla
251(7)
Search or Browse Amazon with Watson
258(3)
Add Cover Art to Your Digital Music Collection
261(2)
Using All Consuming's SOAP and REST Interfaces
263(6)
Index 269

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