[Web4lib] capturing data from Amazon in an Access database

[Jonathan Gorman]

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>Date: Tue,  3 Jul 2007 08:39:58 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Jonathan Gorman <jtgorman at uiuc.edu>  
>Subject: Re: [Web4lib] capturing data from Amazon in an Access database  
>To: Ross Singer <ross.singer at library.gatech.edu>, John Fitzgibbon <jfitzgibbon at galwaylibrary.ie>
>Cc: web4lib at webjunction.org
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>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.
>

Sorry, I realized I left out a crucial sentence or two.  If you look at the url you can see the ISBN/product id,

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0937381888/
                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^

yank that out, and you can use that to query AWS about specific items.


Jon Gorman