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New MTAmazon forthcoming

Amazon has released a new version of the Web services system that MTAmazon uses (AWS). MTAmazon is being updated to include some exciting new features.

Keyword searches have always been possible, but now you can search for keywords within wishlists, browse nodes, and ListMania lists. Use MTAmazon to display just the Sony items on your wishlist if you want. I’ve got some clever ideas for how to use this feature for some highly targeted searches that I’ll share once the plugin is done.

You’ll finally be able to search by price. Got a community photoblog? Show your users low-budget digital cameras and camera phones.

This is still expiremental, so things may change, but the plan is to let visitors add items to their Amazon shopping carts while staying on your site. Once they are ready to check out, the cart will be transfered to Amazon where they can enter their payment information.

I’m also planning better support for people without XML::Parser installed. If you haven’t been able to use MTAmazon because your host didn’t have the required modules, there’s still hope. I’m trying some things that will let MTAmazon parse the AWS XML responses using modules that are easier to install.

I’m also going to add some access to more information about products like customer reviews.

Anything else? Tell me what you want to see in the next MTAmazon.

Naturelich
February 18, 2005 4:19 PM

Is there a version which works together with Amazon Germany. I was not able to find anything in the documentation. Appreciate any help. http://www.naturelich.com/archives/2005/02/mtamazonandbo.html

Mike
March 25, 2005 1:50 PM

It would be really nice if there was some sort of functionality for dealing with books that have no images associated with them on Amazon, like defining a placeholder image, or something like that.

Alpesh
April 9, 2005 9:51 AM

Hi.

I apreciate your efforts of developing plugin like MTAMezon. I required such web service plugin for my site. But my requirement is like. user should be able to shop and pay from my site only. There should not be any Amezon page displyed to the user, not even for payment. Please tell me can your plugin meet all these requirements?

If you wish to provide it at commercial basis then also thats fine for me.

Please let me know about this by mail.

Thanks Alpesh

hilary
May 4, 2005 1:07 PM

I LOVED MTAmazon, and a few people told me it was one of their favourite things about my blog… (not sure what that says about the rest of my blog but anyway.) However, in rebuilding recently, I discovered that my ISP no longer support f(open). for security reasons. They recommend using curl instead. A couple of other ISPs appear to be going the same route. This doesn’t really mean much to me as I am by no means a programmer, but I would love it if somehow it was made compatible again. I am using it with Bookqueue too.

Hansi
June 9, 2005 12:40 AM

It would be great to have more paramters… i.e. heavy or lite, AWS 4.0 or AWS 3.0 request.

Can’t wait to use MTAmazon 3.0

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