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Amazon Product Viewer
By Eric Giguere
February 25, 2006
Updated February 28, 2006
This little tool lets you view the details for any product sold
by Amazon on its various websites. All you do is enter the ISBN (for
books) or ASIN (Amazon's unique product ID number) of the product
in question to see it details. The information is pulled directly
from Amazon's databases using the Amazon E-Commerce Service (ECS).
The data is returned as XML and can be viewed in your browser or
downloaded to your computer.
Limitations and Source Code
Please note that Amazon limits use of the ECS to no more than
one request per second. This tool throttles its requests
accordingly, meaning that if someone else is using this page
to fetch data you might have to wait a few seconds before you'll
see anything. If this isn't good enough for you, you'll need to
sign up for
Amazon Web Services yourself to create an account to get
your own subscription ID for accessing the ECS directly from
your own computer.
I have a simple command-line version of this tool available
for free. It's written in Java, so download
and install Java if you don't already have it, and then subscribe
to my Amazon Tools mailing list to get the tool (including source
code) sent to you:
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