How to query Amazon information via a web service?

> Thanks mirko
> I will read that ;)
> Like that I can learn something. Did you check cloudfork? do you know if there are some services communication I could reuse?
>
> Stef
>
> On Oct 31, 2010, at 6:13 PM, Mirko Kiefer wrote:
>
>> Hi Stephane,
>>
>> I wrote a simple client for the Amazon Web Services in Node.js that allows you to do this kind of queries.
>> The implementation is quite straightforward - porting it to Smalltalk shouldn't be much work.
>> http://github.com/mirkok/Node-AWS
>>
>> Mirko
>>
>> On 10/31/10 5:51 PM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
>>> Hi guys
>>>
>>> I would like to get book information from an ISBN and I would like to query amazon.
>>> Does any of you an experience with that and some pointers?
>>>
>>> Stef
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> Stef,
>
> One of the initial seaBreeze examples we showed at ESUg in Amsterdam. The
> demo still is part of seaBreeze one-click image. Just download seaBreeze
> from seaBreeze.heeg.de and have a look.
>
> Georg
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> Hi guys
>
> I would like to get book information from an ISBN and I would like to query
> amazon.
> Does any of you an experience with that and some pointers?
>
> Stef
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> Stephane,
> I haven't looked at the cloudfork code in detail but I'm sure you can reuse the generic part of setting up the communication.
> All Amazon Web Services communicate in the same way - its basically about signing your requests with an HMAC signature using your secret access-token.
> Each API then defines certain query parameters. To do your ISBN queries you can have a look here:
> http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSECommerceService/latest/DG/index.html?ItemLookup.html
>
> You will just need to supply the parameters IdType=ISBN and ItemId for the actual ISBN.
> Depending of the amount or kind of information you want to get you can specifiy certain "ResponseGroups" in the request e.g. "Large" or "Medium".
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Mirko
>
>
> On 10/31/10 6:27 PM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
>> Thanks mirko
>> I will read that ;)
>> Like that I can learn something. Did you check cloudfork? do you know if there are some services communication I could reuse?
>>
>> Stef
>>
>> On Oct 31, 2010, at 6:13 PM, Mirko Kiefer wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Stephane,
>>>
>>> I wrote a simple client for the Amazon Web Services in Node.js that allows you to do this kind of queries.
>>> The implementation is quite straightforward - porting it to Smalltalk shouldn't be much work.
>>> http://github.com/mirkok/Node-AWS
>>>
>>> Mirko
>>>
>>> On 10/31/10 5:51 PM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
>>>> Hi guys
>>>>
>>>> I would like to get book information from an ISBN and I would like to query amazon.
>>>> Does any of you an experience with that and some pointers?
>>>>
>>>> Stef
>>>> _______________________________________________
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>>>> [hidden email]
>>>> http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org
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