Amazon Hacks (Paperback, 1st)

Credits

Foreword

Preface

Chapter 1. Browsing and Searching
01. Find a Product's ASIN
02. Find a CD's ASIN with the UPC
03. Jump to a Product Using Its ASIN
04. Create Shorter URLs
05. Link Directly to Product Images
06. Switch to a Text-Only Amazon
07. Take Amazon Anywhere
08. Browse and Search Categories with Browse Nodes
09. Power-Search for Books
10. Search Amazon from the IE Address Bar
11. Search Amazon from Any Web Page in IE
12. Add an Amazon Sidebar Search to Mozilla

Chapter 2. Controlling Your Information
13. Understand Identity at Amazon
14. Fine-Tune Your Recommendations
15. Enable 1-Click Buying
16. Set Up a Group Account
17. Create an \'About You\' Area
18. Create a Wish List
19. Add Items to a Wish List Remotely
20. Add Multiple Items to a Wish List at Once
21. Organize Your Wish List by Priority
22. Set Email and Messages Preferences
23. Get Movie Showtimes
24. Create an Amazon Event Reminder
25. Create Several Birthday Reminders at Once
26. Best Practices for Your Amazon Account

Chapter 3. Participating in the Amazon Community
27. Write a Review
28. Link Directly to Reviews of a Product
29. Post a Review from a Remote Site
30. Add Pop-up Amazon Reviews to Your Web Site
31. Send an Email Alert if a Review Is Added to a Product
32. Sort Books by Average Customer Rating
33. Sort Your Recommendations by Average Customer Rating
34. Scrape Product Reviews
35. Publish Your Amazon Reviews on Your Site
36. Share the Love (and Savings!) with Your Friends
37. Create a Guide
38. Post a Guide Remotely
39. Add Product Advice Remotely
40. Scrape Customer Advice
41. Create a Listmania! List
42. Gather Your Friends on Amazon
43. Gather Your Friends' Amazon IDs
44. Get Purchase Circle Products with Screen Scraping
45. Find Purchase Circles by Zip Code
46. Track the Ranks of Books Over Time
47. Group Conversations About Books
48. Add a \'Currently Reading\' List to Your Web Site

Chapter 4. Selling Through Amazon
49. Sell a Book with Amazon Marketplace
50. Speed Up the Listing Process
51. List Several Items for Sale at Once
52. Sell What People Want
53. Scope Out the Marketplace Competition
54. List Your Items for Sale on Your Web Site
55. Put an Item Up for Bid at Amazon Auctions
56. Get (and Keep!) a Good Seller Rating
57. Collect Donations from Your Web Site with the Honor System
58. Show the Progress of Your Honor System Fund on Your Site

Chapter 5. Associates Program
59. Build Associate Links
60. Sell Items from Your Site
61. Sell Items with Pop-up Windows
62. Create Banner Ads for Your Site
63. Rotate Through Several Keyword Banners on Your Site
64. Add an Amazon Search Box to Your Site
65. Show Amazon Search Results on Your Site
66. Create an Online Store
67. Donate to Charities Through Associate Links
68. Format a Review for Your Site
69. Create Amazon Associate Links on Your Movable Type Weblog
70. Simplify Amazon Associate Links in Your Blosxom Weblog
71. Add an Amazon Box to Your Site
72. Deep Linking to Amazon's Mobile Device Pages
73. Measure Your Associate Sales
74. Publish Your Associate Sales Statistics on Your Site
75. Associates Program Best Practices

Chapter 6. Amazon Web Services
76. View XML Responses in a Browser
77. Embed Product Details into a Web Page with PHP
78. Program AWS with PHP
79. Program AWS with Python
80. Program AWS with Perl
81. Loop Around the 10-Result Limit
82. Program XML/HTTP with VBScript
83. Transform AWS Results to HTML with XSLT
84. Work Around Products Without Images
85. Syndicate a List of Books with RSS
86. Import Data Directly into Excel
87. Program AWS with SOAP and VB.NET
88. Program AWS with SOAP::Lite and Perl
89. Program AWS with NuSOAP and PHP
90. Create a Wireless Wish List
91. Make Product Titles Shorter
92. Encode Text for URLs
93. Cache Amazon Images Locally
94. Cache AWS Responses Locally
95. Create an Amazon AIM Bot
96. Compare International Sales
97. Program AWS with Mozilla
98. Search or Browse Amazon with Watson
99. Add Cover Art to Your Digital Music Collection
100. Using All Consuming's SOAP and REST Interfaces

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