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DaveK
DaveK

Reputation: 4607

How can I track the sales rank of an item on Amazon programmatically?

I've seen several products that will track the sales rank of an item on Amazon. Does Amazon have any web-services published that I can use to get the sales rank of a particular item?

I've looked through the AWS and didn't see anything of that nature.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 5348

Answers (2)

ade
ade

Reputation: 4074

Amazon have changed their API so it now requires a signature: http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/ann.jspa?annID=483 so the above example no longer works from August 2009 onwards.

Upvotes: 2

Adam Hughes
Adam Hughes

Reputation: 3812

You should be able to determine the Sales Rank by querying for the SalesRank response group when doing an ItemLookup with the Amazon Associates Web Service.

Example query:

http://ecs.amazonaws.com/onca/xml?
Service=AWSECommerceService&
AWSAccessKeyId=[AWS Access Key ID]&
Operation=ItemLookup&
ItemId=0976925524&
ResponseGroup=SalesRank&
Version=2008-08-19

Response:

<Item>
  <ASIN>0976925524</ASIN> 
  <SalesRank>68</SalesRank> 
</Item>

See the documentation here: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSECommerceService/2008-08-19/DG/index.html?RG_SalesRank.html

Upvotes: 5

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