Simple Amazon wishlist display

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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:

Trackback from lovelinks
June 28, 2003 9:03 PM

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Excerpt: Simple Amazon wishlist display - doesn't require the MTAmazon plugin. Very nice!...

DLashley
June 29, 2003 10:02 AM

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.

Adam Kalsey
June 29, 2003 10:26 AM

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.

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June 29, 2003 2:36 PM

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July 2, 2003 6:33 AM

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July 3, 2003 6:09 AM

http://www.fortysomething.ca/mt/etc/archives/002863.php

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July 4, 2003 5:05 PM

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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...

Jamie
July 10, 2003 2:39 AM

Very cool. Sadly, it doesn’t seem to work with amazon.co.uk …

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July 10, 2003 6:09 AM

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Amancay Maahs
July 10, 2003 1:26 PM

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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July 20, 2003 10:29 AM

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September 26, 2003 3:02 AM

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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

dazzle
October 13, 2003 9:05 AM

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/

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November 15, 2003 3:13 PM

My Amazon Wishlist

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">...

ncutie
February 1, 2010 9:59 PM

http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/2I77UI8XDCAUV

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