Associate-o-Matic: How to generate my own rss feeds ?

Discussion in 'Amazon' started by Nite, Dec 23, 2006.

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    I would like to use a freeware script that would be used to generate rss feeds based upon the content found inside my associate-o-matic store. I know that there are some paid scripts out there that will embed my Amazon.com affiliate ID# into Amazon's own RSS feeds.

    However, I'm not interested in feeds that point to Amazon.com. I want feeds that would point to *my* affiliate store.

    Does anyone know of such an .Html -> Rss script that would add a usable RSS button to all of my associate-o-matic pages ?
     
    Nite, Dec 23, 2006 IP
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    drewbe121212 Well-Known Member

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    Actually, I was wondering this myself. You could do some redirection I think. (This is just some brainstorming).

    It is all about finding the common data that is found on your site, and amazon.com; and more specifically the ASIN :)

    In My Store, the URL to a product is setup like this:
    category - browsenode - ASIN - ITEM_TITLE

    So, query the AWS and get what you want, except when you output the url
    rather then making it
    www-amazon-com/4-234235-BADF234SDF-Item_title_here
    make it
    www-yoursite-com/4-234235-BADF234SDF-Item_title_here

    (sorry for the dashes, was making it so it didn't translate to url)

    In theory, this works (atleast to me). And since the data is originally being pulled from amazon anyways, it should be fairly (actually, exactly) consistent.

    The only thing that would be different would probobly be the category as it is setup as your own specific category on AOM. Of course in AOM you could just setup the category id as the actual browsenode then it wouldn't be any problem at all.

    Maybe you can create a hidden category that is just titled RSS feeds and set it to some random directory. The home store doesn't seem to care what the category is nor the browse node, just as long as it is their. It displays the product just fine still.

    Of course, someone suggested this over at AOM as well; so maybe you can just wait :)
     
    drewbe121212, Dec 27, 2006 IP