Community: Please come alive and fill in the Amazon documentation

- Unpack the file in your modules folder

- Go to Administer > Site Building > Modules
- Enable:
-- Amazon API
-- Amazon field
-- Amazon filter
-- Amazon media
- Click Save Configuration

- Go to Administer > Site configuration > Amazon API
- Change "Amazon referral settings: " to "Use your own associate ID"
- Enter your associate ID.
- Click Save Configuration

- Go to Administer > Site configuration > Input formats
- Click Configure for Filtered HTML
- Check the box for "Amazon filter"
- Click Save

Now go create some content. To insert a product with ASIN 1423107233, enter the following into the body of the page:

Hopefully that will help you get started.

Thank you! It works.

Just wondering...how did you and everyone else know that? I keep finding modules in Drupal which have no instructions whatever (not even a readme in the downloaded file!), yet everyone is interacting freely about the module, obviously knowledgeable about how it works. I get the feeling that I'm really not getting something here.

You can also use CCK to add Amazon fields to content types.

I also would like to learn more about the usage.

1) How to make the link open a new window?

2) I got these two:
Access Key ID, and Amazon Associate ID.
Do I need both, or one will work. I noticed the link through Amazon filter does attach the associate ID with the link. Then what is the use of Access Key ID?

On a side note: if you go to http://affiliate-program.amazon.com, you can follow the link to create the link for your site. Then you don't need the Amazon API module.

Are you supposed to put the isbn in the cck field? That's not working for me. Just keeps saying "No Amazon product with the ID nnn could be located" even though I'm cut and pasting the isbn for 'nnn' right off the Amazon page.

I share the OP's frustration here... there is just about zero info on how to use this module.

not the isbn....always put the ASIN number

Thanks... but where does one find the ASIN number? If it takes more than two clicks to find, it's probably easier to just use the filter and key in "amazon: <isbn>" in an ordinary text area, isn't it?

It's on the same page as with any other info for the related product. ISBN might be good enough for books but that is not the unique ID of the amazon item. If you use the search engine of amazon internally to your drupal installation , you will see that the ASIN is not shown (which is really stupid) so if you can code you can put it yourself. But the ASIN number is always on the XML retrieval so it's not really two clicks!

I've tried doing it both ways and while it pulls in the data, the price never shows up.

I've tried this with both the CCK field and filter options. If anyone could answer this, I'd appreciate it.

See also: CCK Field: Price Not Showing, No Matter What I Do

I have to agree with paulgibbs, I am COMPLETELY lost how ANYONE knows ANYTHING about this module. I have spent a couple of hours just trying to find what can and cannot be used where the "full" is now in the example [amazon 1423107233 full] The only 2 things I have stumbled over that work are 'full 'and 'thumbnail'. Are there other options?

I am not trying to sell books as much as trying to make the public libraries I support an easier way to create book lists. I tried the Book Post module but the OpenLibrary catalog is too unpredictable for routine use.

Some kind of documentation would be HUGE.

Me too. I've spent some hours to find out how it could be use but I did not find the answer.
Is there a way to display also price, ratings, descriptions, ... all the stuff which is provided by the api?
Regards francula

I use this method - not perfect, but it works.

After looking around, I found some usage docs for the filter, but they weren't complete. They say:

Link to Amazon products with: [amazon product_id inline|full|thumbnail]. Example: [amazon 1590597559 thumbnail]

There's another option: details. As in: [amazon 1430209895 details]. Stumbled across it when theming.

Kieran
http://coredogs.com

Many of you on this thread seem to have some significant expertise. I'm trying to clean up some of the issues here, and would appreciate if you could help with the documentation for Amazon module.

I just created a documentation page at http://drupal.org/node/595464, so please add your recipes and procedures to it.

Community contributions are welcome to the docs page: http://drupal.org/node/595464. Marking this fixed.

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