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How do I get a book graphic and description from the Amazon Book API?

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This URL sends an ISBN number to Amazon and gets back a small bit of XML including author, title, and publisher.

However, I also want to get small, medium and large graphic and book descriptions of the title.

Problem: I can find no REST URL examples/documention that work, either at Google or when logged into my "AWS Account" at Amazon Associates.

I find a lot of examples from 2003-2005 but they are all out-of-date and give errors, it seems that Amazon's cloud web services have obfuscated their simple REST API documentation for their books.

Can anyone point me to some documentation on how I can get detailed information about books at Amazon via REST/XML?

Here's what I have tried so far.

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Edward Tanguay Avatar asked Jan 11 '09 15:01

Edward Tanguay


2 Answers

So, allow me to answer my own question, from another question here I found this useful PDF and the following URL gets images for instance, see "ResponseGroup"

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Edward Tanguay Avatar answered Nov 12 '22 18:11

Edward Tanguay


ResponseGroup is the key, and if you specify more than one (comma separated) the results are stitched together

That is, "&ResponseGroup=Images,Small" returns the minimal details and images about products

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Oscar M. Avatar answered Nov 12 '22 16:11

Oscar M.