Script to search on amazon without AWS

Discussion in 'Amazon' started by gruimed, Nov 29, 2006.

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    I'd like to write some very simple script (and in order to keep it simple I'd like to avoid using Amazon Web Services). All this script has to do is to perform a search for an Amazon Auctions member on the following pages

    http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/subst/search/auction-search.html/103-8038245-4377448

    It seems that a simple script that does an HTPP POST would be enough (after all this is what the browser does), yet somehow it does not work. The only difference between the HTTP POST sent by the browser and by the script seem to be at the end:

    http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/ae-nickname-search/058-3301183-8462203
    POST /exec/varzea/ae-nickname-search/058-3301183-8462203 HTTP/1.1
    Host: s1.amazon.com
    ...
    Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
    Content-Length: 41
    exchange-type=auction&seller=san&x=31&y=7


    Any ideas ?

    Thanks
     
    gruimed, Nov 29, 2006 IP
  2. bizhobby

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    What's wrong with using AWS? Effectively it does the same for you except for you don't have to parse the results like mad.
     
    bizhobby, Dec 6, 2006 IP