Amazon Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips and Techniques

696 Pages·2003·5.41 MB·English

by  Paul Bausch

Main Page
Table of content
Copyright
Credits
About the Author
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Preface
Why Amazon Hacks?
How This Book Is Organized
How to Use This Book
Conventions Used in This Book
How to Contact Us
Got a Hack?
Chapter 1. Browsing and Searching
1.1 Hacks #1-12
1.2 Amazon Product Pages
Hack 1 Find a Product's ASIN
Hack 2 Find a CD's ASIN with the UPC
Hack 3 Jump to a Product Using Its ASIN
Hack 4 Create Shorter URLs
Hack 5 Link Directly to Product Images
Hack 6 Switch to a Text-Only Amazon
Hack 7 Take Amazon Anywhere
Hack 8 Browse and Search Categories with Browse
Nodes
Hack 9 Power-Search for Books
Hack 10 Search Amazon from the IE Address Bar
Hack 11 Search Amazon from Any Web Page in IE
Hack 12 Add an Amazon Sidebar Search to Mozilla
Chapter 2. Controlling Your Information
2.1 Hacks #13-26
Hack 13 Understand Identity at Amazon
Hack 14 Fine-Tune Your Recommendations
Hack 15 Enable 1-Click Buying
Hack 16 Set Up a Group Account
Hack 17 Create an 'About You' Area
Hack 18 Create a Wish List
Hack 19 Add Items to a Wish List Remotely
Hack 20 Add Multiple Items to a Wish List at Once
Hack 21 Organize Your Wish List by Priority
Hack 22 Set Email and Messages Preferences
Hack 23 Get Movie Showtimes
Hack 24 Create an Amazon Event Reminder
Hack 25 Create Several Birthday Reminders at Once
Hack 26 Best Practices for Your Amazon Account
Chapter 3. Participating in the Amazon Community
3.1 Hacks #27-48
3.2 Community Features
3.3 Accessing Community Features
Hack 27 Write a Review
Hack 28 Link Directly to Reviews of a Product
Hack 29 Post a Review from a Remote Site
Hack 30 Add Pop-up Amazon Reviews to Your Web Site
Hack 31 Send an Email Alert if a Review Is Added to a
Product
Hack 32 Sort Books by Average Customer Rating
Hack 33 Sort Your Recommendations by Average
Customer Rating
Hack 34 Scrape Product Reviews
Hack 35 Publish Your Amazon Reviews on Your Site
Hack 36 Share the Love (and Savings!) with Your
Friends
Hack 37 Create a Guide
Hack 38 Post a Guide Remotely
Hack 39 Add Product Advice Remotely
Hack 40 Scrape Customer Advice
Hack 41 Create a Listmania! List
Hack 42 Gather Your Friends on Amazon
Hack 43 Gather Your Friends' Amazon IDs
Hack 44 Get Purchase Circle Products with Screen
Scraping
Hack 45 Find Purchase Circles by Zip Code
Hack 46 Track the Ranks of Books Over Time
Hack 47 Group Conversations About Books
Hack 48 Add a 'Currently Reading' List to Your Web Site
Chapter 4. Selling Through Amazon
4.1 Hacks #49-58
4.2 Understanding Amazon's Sales Programs
Hack 49 Sell a Book with Amazon Marketplace
Hack 50 Speed Up the Listing Process
Hack 51 List Several Items for Sale at Once
Hack 52 Sell What People Want
Hack 53 Scope Out the Marketplace Competition
Hack 54 List Your Items for Sale on Your Web Site
Hack 55 Put an Item Up for Bid at Amazon Auctions
Hack 56 Get (and Keep!) a Good Seller Rating
Hack 57 Collect Donations from Your Web Site with the
Honor System
Hack 58 Show the Progress of Your Honor System Fund
on Your Site
Chapter 5. Associates Program
5.1 Hacks #59-75
5.2 Make Money by Linking to Amazon
Hack 59 Build Associate Links
Hack 60 Sell Items from Your Site
Hack 61 Sell Items with Pop-up Windows
Hack 62 Create Banner Ads for Your Site
Hack 63 Rotate Through Several Keyword Banners on
Your Site
Hack 64 Add an Amazon Search Box to Your Site
Hack 65 Show Amazon Search Results on Your Site
Hack 66 Create an Online Store
Hack 67 Donate to Charities Through Associate Links
Hack 68 Format a Review for Your Site
Hack 69 Create Amazon Associate Links on Your
Movable Type Weblog
Hack 70 Simplify Amazon Associate Links in Your
Blosxom Weblog
Hack 71 Add an Amazon Box to Your Site
Hack 72 Deep Linking to Amazon's Mobile Device Pages
Hack 73 Measure Your Associate Sales
Hack 74 Publish Your Associate Sales Statistics on Your
Site
Hack 75 Associates Program Best Practices
Chapter 6. Amazon Web Services
6.1 Hacks #76-100
6.2 What Are Web Services?
6.3 Why Expose an API?
6.4 What You Need
6.5 What You Can Do
6.6 Making Requests
6.7 The RESTful Way: XML/HTTP
6.8 SOAP Web Services
6.9 Working With Responses
Hack 76 View XML Responses in a Browser
Hack 77 Embed Product Details into a Web Page with
PHP
Hack 78 Program AWS with PHP
Hack 79 Program AWS with Python
Hack 80 Program AWS with Perl
Hack 81 Loop Around the 10-Result Limit
Hack 82 Program XML/HTTP with VBScript
Hack 83 Transform AWS Results to HTML with XSLT
Hack 84 Work Around Products Without Images
Hack 85 Syndicate a List of Books with RSS
Hack 86 Import Data Directly into Excel
Hack 87 Program AWS with SOAP and VB.NET
Hack 88 Program AWS with SOAP::Lite and Perl
Hack 89 Program AWS with NuSOAP and PHP
Hack 90 Create a Wireless Wish List
Hack 91 Make Product Titles Shorter
Hack 92 Encode Text for URLs
Hack 93 Cache Amazon Images Locally
Hack 94 Cache AWS Responses Locally
Hack 95 Create an Amazon AIM Bot
Hack 96 Compare International Sales
Hack 97 Program AWS with Mozilla
Hack 98 Search or Browse Amazon with Watson
Hack 99 Add Cover Art to Your Digital Music Collection
Hack 100 Using All Consuming's SOAP and REST
Interfaces
Colophon
Index
Index SYMBOL
Index A
Index B
Index C
Index D
Index E
Index F
Index G
Index H
Index I
Index J
Index K
Index L
Index M
Index N
Index P
Index Q
Index R
Index S
Index T
Index U
Index V
Index W
Index X
Index Y
Index Z
• Table of Contents
• Index
• Reviews
• Reader Reviews
• Errata
Amazon Hacks
By Paul Bausch

Publisher: O'Reilly
Pub Date: August 2003
ISBN: 0-596-00542-3
Pages: 304
Amazon Hacks is a collection of real-world tips, tricks, and full-scale
solutions to practical uses of Amazon.com and the Amazon Web
Services API . The book offers a variety of interesting ways for power
users to get the most out of Amazon and its community, for Associates to
hone their recommendations for better linking and more referral fees, for
researchers to mine the enormous amount of information in Amazon's
data store, and for developers to integrate Amazon Web Services into
their applications and services.
• Table of Contents
• Index
• Reviews
• Reader Reviews
• Errata
Amazon Hacks
By
Paul Bausch

Publisher: O'Reilly
Pub Date: August 2003
ISBN: 0-596-00542-3
Pages: 304

Copyright
Credits
About the Author

Contributors

Acknowledgments