Hello,

I have been using your module for a few days now, and I am very pleased with it's current functionality. I am very interested in advancing my skills with this module, and I understand how I can build manual categories with views by manually adding Amazon products, but I was wondering if there are plans to include some sort of support for populating category pages within the actual Amazon store module itself. I recently left a commercial solution that was able to populate category pages and subcategory pages within the store based off the category on Amazon.

I see that I can get a URL from a search as well, which could work perhaps, but it would make this module so much more powerful if there was a way to populate a whole category page with ASINs within that category on Amazon. Perhaps even add the ability to sort which items get added to this category page by specific variables when adding them. These could include top, most recent, etc. If this is only able to be done in batches of 10, perhaps you can choose how many products to include in the category and run a batch with a pause of some sort as to not break their ToS.

I am very interested in using this module for relaunching of an affiliate site of mine, but adding all the products manually is just not something I can afford to spend the time on. The views option is also not very solid, as even in the documentation of the module it says that items that go off the Amazon site will throw an error of some sort or at least 404.

I would be glad to help test out this feature and report bugs if needed. Keep up the great work on this module, as it has huge potential. If you can build something into the module that can automatically populate categories for store category pages, this module is going to take off in the affiliate world. I am going to start poking around in the Amazon AWS API and see if I can find any info to help the process.

Thanks for the great piece of work so far. I am excited to see where it goes from here.

Cheers,

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rfay
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I suspect that what you're talking about is browsenodes. Although Amazon seems to not be pursuing the browsenode idea very thoroughly, Amazon Store has full capability with it. The BROWSENODES.txt file in the module directory says this:

Using Browsenodes with the Amazon Store module
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You can easily get a list of related items under a particular browsenode
in the Amazon hierarchy. You just need to find the browsenode you want.

To find a browsenode, use the information at http://browsenodes.com
You can also use the browsenodes panel optionally provided with
amazon_store to see browsenodes related to a particular product.

When you have a browsenode, you can use a URL like
http://example.com/amazon_store/?BrowseNode=319596011
to display all the items in that browsenode.

The browsenodes.com FAQ is useful: http://www.browsenodes.com/page-FAQ.html,
as is the article "Are Browsenodes disappearing" at
http://www.a2sdeveloper.com/page-are-more/browse-nodes-disappearing.html

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lentreprenaute commented

Hi Rfay,

I was looking for this, i 'd like to create menu with "amazon node". i try on a local installation without success.

I try to on the sample site with a valid Amazon "browsnode"

-http://alonovo.com//amazon_store/?BrowseNode=1036592
-http://www.browsenodes.com/detail-1036592.html

it don't work,

Any ideas.Thanks.

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You have to use a SearchIndex with it. I apologize for not saying that. The file BROWSENODES.txt explains about this, hopefully correctly (it's in the root of the module).

Now, you chose a browsenode which happens to be in Apparel, which almost always times out, for no reason I've ever understood.

But if you choose a random node like node 4366, (http://www.browsenodes.com/node-4366.html) and give it a SearchIndex:

http://alonovo.com/amazon_store?SearchIndex=Books&BrowseNode=4366

It works as advertised.

Sorry for leaving out the SearchIndex, but the error message does tell you that.

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Title: Populate Internal Store Categories? » How to use Browsenodes with Amazon Store
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lentreprenaute commented

Thanks!

An other question about url, can we use module url alias, to rewrite path?

http://alonovo.com/amazon_store?SearchIndex=Books&BrowseNode=4366

http://alonovo.com/store/book/4366

or better
http://alonovo.com/store/book/category-name/4366

I tried without success, an other suggestion: give us the ability to choice the name : Amazon store, which come in url and all page by personnal name. it's not to try to hide amazon but to have a spécific name.

regards,
Florent

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Status: Active » Fixed

Sorry, no way to rewrite the "amazon_store" URL at this time.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

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enjoy777 commented

hello rfay

I understand your explanation about creating categories with browsenode.
I have other question: on amazon.com categories work as some kind of filters, is it possible to create someting like on amazon.com?
What I mean. Let's say I would like to use categories in such manner: I have store for LEGO bricks.
So I would like to have 2 types of categories :
Age:
12-15 years
8-11 years
4-7 years

Themes:
Lego star wars
Lego city

Is it possible to click on eg. 12-15 years link and Lego city link and as a result get all Lego sets from Lego city theme designed for children 12-15 years? So it should be a sum of these 2 queries.

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That's probably the NarrowBy functionality that you see in the "Narrow your search". But I really have no idea how you can do this.

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gyrofly commented

You could also try
http://www.findbrowsenodes.com