

•	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

Credits

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

Section 1.1. Hacks #1-12

Section 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

Section 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

Section 3.1. Hacks #27-48

Section 3.2. Community Features

Section 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

Section 4.1. Hacks #49-58

Section 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

Section 5.1. Hacks #59-75

Section 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

Section 6.1. Hacks #76-100

Section 6.2. What Are Web Services?

Section 6.3. Why Expose an API?

Section 6.4. What You Need

Section 6.5. What You Can Do

Section 6.6. Making Requests

Section 6.7. The RESTful Way: XML/HTTP

Section 6.8. SOAP Web Services

Section 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

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