[Web4lib] capturing data from Amazon in an Access database

Jonathan Gorman jtgorman at uiuc.edu
Tue Jul 3 09:39:58 EDT 2007



The checkout screen, or at least on of the initial ones, has links that follow this pattern: 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0937381888/ref=....
I've snipped off the end of the url, it looks pretty much session-specific.

You could probably run a script/plug/macro on this screen to yank these out then query AWS for the specific information you need like Ross suggested.

Jon Gorman
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