Is it possible to set up a view (or something else) for a categorized search results page. Basically what I want to do is to set up a menu called "Rock Music" and bring up a listing of only the genre "Rock" from amazon. I am only able to filter in that specific result from content I manually entered it but I rather it pull from amazons site so I can have fresh results each time.
Is that possible to do? It seems so after viewing the example sites such as:
http://www.xn--tlchargementsmp3-bqbb.com/rock
http://www.thelawnmowersite.com/Search-Lawn-Mowers/results/taxonomy%3A5 -
I am not sure if all those items were manually entered in or if its pulling in amazon results
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Comment #1
rfayIn D7, we could theoretically have a views back end that used the Amazon API. That would be ever-so-cool.
In D6, I guess we could have Amazon Search capture data into the amazon_item table and then use the views interface.
Comment #2
panchoWe might get to that in the 7.x-2 branch.
Comment #3
krymp commentedI the 2 examples I posted above -
http://www.xn--tlchargementsmp3-bqbb.com/rock
http://www.thelawnmowersite.com/Search-Lawn-Mowers/results/taxonomy%3A5 -
What would be some methods on how they were doing it? in the /rock one, I wouldn't think they listed all 178 pages of it manually.
Thx
Comment #4
rfayYou could contact them to ask.
There are many ways to use the Amazon API.
Comment #5
panchoIf I get it right, this is definitely possible, and I'm planning to work on a more sophisticated use of browsenodes and custom categories in the 7.x-2 branch. The entirety of the major changes planned for 7.x-2, will however mean that it might take some time until the brand new Amazon.module is in fact deployable.
So if you want a fast solution, browsenodes should be what you are looking for. The BrowseNode for "Rock" is simply 40 (see http://www.browsenodes.com/node-40.html). You might want to add an entry for this one in amazon_store.locale.us.inc: just copy over the entry for "Music" and replace the BrowseNode by 40.
Comment #6
rfayAmazon Store supports BrowseNodes - see the BrowseNodes.txt file in it as well, if that's useful to you.
Comment #7
rfayHowever, note that there is some question whether Amazon has a commitment to the BrowseNode idea or has already turned away from it.
Comment #8
panchoThat's interesting... do you know more about that? Actually how do they want to organize the items instead? Semantic keywords? The search index idea, however, is even less flexible. I'd understand if they dropped that one.
Comment #9
krymp commentedI am unable to reach reach the http://www.xn--tlchargementsmp3-bqbb.com/rock to see how they did it and I contacted the lawn mower site with no response. I am curious to see the how they did the categories. Did they hand select the categories or some custom script to bring in the category. Either way I am just curious as I am not a programmer but don't mind hand selecting and assigning a tag to bring up the category search result. I just want to know if I need to manually enter in each item or if there is a dynamic way to capture the genre.
Comment #10
willvincent commented