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27 Jun 2003
MTAmazon is often used to insert a person’s wishlist into their page. If you don’t want to go to the trouble of installing MTAmazon to display your wishlist, or if you don’t use MT, here’s simple way to put your wishlist on any web page.
All you need to do is get the URL of your Amazon wishlist by going to Amazon’s wishlist page and looking up your email address. Once you find your list, copy the URL of the page you are on.
Then insert this simple bit of JavaScript code into your page…
<script src="http://kalsey.com/tools/amazon/wishlist/YOUR-WISHLIST-URL" language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"></script>
…and replace “YOUR-WISHLIST-URL” with your actual wishlist URL. For example, the JavaScript for my wishlist is…
<script src="http://kalsey.com/tools/amazon/wishlist/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/registry/9TPZE7QC6FP/" language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"></script>
This bit of JavaScript takes the top ten items from my wishlist and inserts it into my page like so:
Thank you very much for sharing this tip! I'm going to go add it to my page right now! By the way, how would someone "URL Encode" the URL? I'm not sure what is meant by this. Could you please give an example? I'd really appreciate it.
What Jim means is change the http://www.amazon to read http%3A//www.amazon I still contend that it's not needed. While it is technically not correct to have a colon in the URL (unless you are using it as part of your authentication scheme), most browsers are smart enough to deal with it. You aren;t likely to have problems even if you don't encode the URL.
Excerpt: Whether you have a blog or not, Adam has come up with a way to display your Amazon.com wishlist on your webpage. Very cool and easy to implement. Works great if you don't want to install the MTAmazon plugin or if you don't have MoveableType! Adam also ...
Excerpt: Kalsey: Simple Amazon wishlist display mal sehen, ob das auch mit amazon.de-URLS klappt:...
Excerpt: Simple Amazon wishlist display :: Kalsey Consulting Group. - display your Amazon Wishlist without plugins on any blog....
Excerpt: Vor zwei Tagen bloggte ich im Newsfeed über Adam Kalseys Simple Amazon wishlist display, ein Skript, das es möglich machen sollte, die eigene Amazon-Wishlist in die Website einzubauen, und kriegte...
Very cool. Sadly, it doesn't seem to work with amazon.co.uk ...
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that's awesome... but what about those of us that have our own affiliate? as opposed to sending all the comission to you!? (I guess perhaps it's a trade off for the code?)
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Excerpt: Have you ever wanted to display your Amazon Wishlist on your page? Here's mine... Script found at: Kalsey.com You can see my list off to the side on the left, too. In order to
You can also have a look at my AmazonBox which lets you display your wishlist and, with a small hack, allows people to purchase an item for you and send it to you. http://www.edazzle.net/amazon/
Excerpt: On the off chance that you win the lottery, here are the top 10 items on my Amazon Wishlist... http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/registry/JF8Y65P7JHQH/ref=cm_wl_sortdropdown/104-3138964-7283149" language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">...
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June 28, 2003 9:03 PM
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Excerpt: Simple Amazon wishlist display - doesn't require the MTAmazon plugin. Very nice!...