I'd like to query AWS for a Musician's ASIN from the artist's name. I'm not concerned about false matches at this point, I just want to discover the correct parameters that it'll take to get the job done.
Alternatively, I could query using an album's ASIN which I already have. Using the following parameters, I'm able to get the album's artist name, but not the artist ASIN.
Operation => ItemSearch, SearchIndex => Music, Artist => Moby, ResponseGroup => Images,
AssociateTag => Associate_tag
Thanks All!
EDIT: I made a mistake labeling this as a "ASIN". What I'm looking for is the unique id for an artist. Looking at amazon.com/Shinedown/e/B00197I1JU illustrates the use of this unique id ("B00197I1JU"). I'm trying to get this value to store locally.
You need to use the ItemAttributes response group to get a list of products and their ASIN values that are related to your search criteria. This response group will also contain such information as artist name, binding, list price, etc.
You can use more than one ResponseGroup attributes to get both the ItemAttributes and Images response group with the same call.
ASIN—Amazon Standard Item Number An alphanumeric token that uniquely identifies items in the Amazon marketplace. All items in the marketplace have an ASIN. This is by far the most common identifier. ASINs are used by the majority of Product Advertising API operations.
So ASIN is related only with the item not with the item description or details...
I'd like to note that AWS is deprecated when it comes to the store, you should be using MWS and here is the docs for the correct part of MWS you need V138592989.pdf">https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/mwsportal/doc/en_US/products/MWSProductsApiReference.V138592989.pdf and here is the link [hard to find] to the main MWS area. https://developer.amazonservices.com/gp/mws/api.html/182-3268148-9799929?ie=UTF8§ion=products&group=products&version=latest
Keep in mind that without an active pro seller account you will not be able to get a developer key if you are trying to build apps that integrate with private parts of the amazon API. I just went through this and had to grab the free trial long enough to get a key, which still works after you cancel the trial.
Also, you can not receive any support from MWS without that pro seller account! I spent over an hour on the phone with my AWS rep and he didn't even know how to access the MWS site. He had to call them only to be told [by them] that they didn't know how to access their API either, this was all too new for them.
I did eventually get everything working for me after scouring through their docs and downloading the correct API for MWS.
Good Luck!