How to get the Overall Categories, Sub Categories in Amazon MWS?

Question

Hi I'm started the web development in Amazon MWS. I need to integrate the get category list, add product, list product etc in my application. I have referred the documentation, http://docs.developer.amazonservices.com/en_IN/products/Products_Overview.html But, in that document there is no option to get all the categories, sub categories in mws. And also i have referred several sites, they told me to refer the Browse Tree Report in MWS Api. But, there is no section in the report section. Is Amazon MWS have something like "Get Categories" method, or is there any way to do this ?

Answer 1

You can get the categories for a market place api by requesting Browse tree report. Each browse node( Amazon way of storing categories ) contains a field child_nodes which gives you information about the sub categories.

http://docs.developer.amazonservices.com/en_IN/reports/Reports_ReportType.html#ReportTypeCategories__BrowseTreeReports

If you are looking for the categories of individual product. Please refer

http://docs.developer.amazonservices.com/en_IN/products/Products_GetProductCategoriesForSKU.html http://docs.developer.amazonservices.com/en_IN/products/Products_GetProductCategoriesForASIN.html

Answer 2

For simple to use and explore checkout https://www.browsenodes.com

It also has option to browse the categories for other countries. Example for India the URL is https://www.browsenodes.com/amazon.in

Answer 3

The Browse Tree Guide is an Excel file available for download from the Amazon Seller Central. Once logged in, go to Seller Central Help > Manage Inventory > Reference > Browse Tree Guide

Answer 4

I tried in amazon mws scratchpad and could get category information. (scratchpad website: https://mws.amazonservices.com.au/scratchpad/index.html) . The process of getting categories:

• API section Reports -> RequestReport (report type:_GET_MERCHANT_LISTINGS_DATA_, report option: _GET_XML_BROWSE_TREE_DATA_)
• GetReportList(in this list, you may find ReportId related with '_GET_XML_BROWSE_TREE_DATA_' )

• GetReport(use this ReportId as input).

  Then you can get the tree report for all categories