Get amazon pictures

Hi
I was wondering if it is possible to make a script that can get the url of an amzon product image of a product page such as http://www.amazon.com/Nokia-N73-Sil...sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=wireless&qid=1195844283&sr=8-1 it would get the image address of the product. Please tell me how to do this
Thanks

 

Do you have permission from Amazon to grab their pictures?

 

No, i will now but it is good for them as i will link the picture to the product page.
Thanks

 

Try the amazon api

 

you cant gert them through amazon api

 

I think it is possible to get the pictures using their API

 

i have searched and cannot find how. please could you tell me
thanks

 

I do something like this to get the cover images of DVDs from Amazon. You do need a Subscriber ID (and an Associate ID if you want to link back to them and make money), see here for more info.

I am grabbing the item info from a UPC with the following code. You will get some XML that you will need to parse for the SmallImage, MediumImage or LargeImage tags that contain the image url:

<?
$amazonAssociateId      = 'my-assocate-id-get-your-own';
$amazonSubscriberId     = 'my-subscriber-id';
$amazonWebSrvHost       = 'webservices.amazon.com';
$amazonWebSrvPath       = '/onca/xml';

$lookupUPC = '097363314479';

$amazonXML=getAmazonMovieInfo($amazonSubscriberId, $amazonAssociateId,$amazonWebSrvHost,$amazonWebSrvPath,$lookupUPC);
print $amazonXML;

function getAmazonMovieInfo($amazonSubscriberId,$amazonAssociateId,$amazonWebSrvHost,$amazonWebSrvPath,$upc) {
  $query_string="Service=AWSECommerceService"
    . "&SubscriptionId=" . $amazonSubscriberId
    . "&AssociateTag=" . $amazonAssociateId
    . "&Operation=ItemLookup"
    . "&SearchIndex=DVD"
    . "&MerchantId=All&IdType=UPC"
    . "&ItemId=" . $upc
    . "&Condition=All"
    . "&ResponseGroup=Request,Images,Small,ItemAttributes";
  $fetchedXML = getURL($amazonWebSrvHost,$amazonWebSrvPath,$query_string);
  return $fetchedXML;
}

function getURL($host,$path,$query_string) {
  $toReturn='';
  $toOpen = "http://" . $host . $path . "?" . $query_string;
  $fh = fopen($toOpen, "r");
  if ($fh) {
    while (!feof($fh)) {
      $toReturn .= fgets($fh, 512);
    }
    fclose($fh);
  } else {
    print "Error fetching data from Amazon.com";
  }
  return $toReturn;
}
?>

PHP:

This example grabs the movie info xml from amazon based on the UPC of one of favorite movies "Virtuosity" and prints it out. From there you can just use the xml info you need, like the "SmallImage" for the cover art. There is really a ton of stuff you can do with the amazon api, the above was a stripped down version of what i actually use on a dvd site. Hope this helps!