Using Amazon's affiliate API for autocompletion

Question

On a website I'm building a search for Amazon products. This should display some information on the products I can pick up using their affiliate API. I can look up information on the products using this dependency (which I'm not entirely happy about, because I should probably create my own package from their provided WSDL), but I'm not entirely sure what would be the best way to implement an autocomplete in a searchbox for their products.

I want to load the autocomplete information from my own server rather than one of Amazon's, but I am not certain what the recommended way to do this would be. Through the provided amazon affiliate API or is there a better way?

As a summary, I am looking for a way where I have a textbox with autocompletion on my website, that uses my own server to do the autocompletion (example.com/search/autocomplete/%QUERY%), which should then call some autocompletion functionality on the Amazon API.

Answer 1

Amazon offers -next to their affiliate API- a webservice which can be used to get their autocomplete information. It can be utilized by calling an URL in the style of:

http://completion.amazon.com/search/complete?search-alias=aps&client=amazon-search-ui&mkt=1&q=canon

Where the contents of q is the query that you want autocompleted.