Amazon Products Feed

The current version number is: 3.030625
This script was created to utilize Amazon.com's Web Services to provide a real-time listing of books or other items on your site that provide links for your visitors to purchase these items from Amazon.com using your affiliate code. This script parses Amazon.com's XML feed to provide search results and bestseller listings in HTML for your visitors.

Features:

Free (as in beer) - Open Source GPL license (as in freedom).
Easy - put your associate id in the script and your affiliate store is fully stocked and ready to run.
Simple - a single Perl script, that only requires one Perl module that should already be installed on your server.
Cross-platform - versions of this script are known to be running on both Linux/Apache and Windows/IIS.
Flexible - control the operation of the script through how you link to it.
Customizable - change the look and feel of the results through simple HTML template files.
Established - dozens of web sites are currently running their own Web store with this script.
Multi-lingual - change the language by editing a simple text file. Currently known to be running on sites in German, Spanish, and Estonian.
Multi-national - works with Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
Scalable - change a single setting to increase or decrease the cache size to trade between speed and disk space.
Promotional - all of the searches are automatically cross linked throughout the results for suggestive selling. Feature special items you select on every page, either chosen randomly from a list you supply or a specific item. Amazon.com's Chat rooms integrated into the results using your associate id.
Efficient - many users have remarked how this script returns results faster then shopping directly at Amazon. Now it's even faster with cached results that are updated hourly.
Extensive - many ways to list the products you want. Browse all products or list selected products by ASIN. Search by: keyword, and many other advanced methods of searching. Even search for third party products by condition and ASIN or by seller.

Examples:

You can see the script in action on my site displaying Books on Web Services or All Bestselling Products.
Other examples: Featured Product, Navigation Menu and text file Include, called using a Server Side Include, showing all available Search Methods or you can view my Wishlist
I am not a graphic artist, I'm barely a programmer. So don't judge the quality of the program by how ugly my HTML is, look at what Other Sites are doing with my script

If you like this script rate it a 10 at O'Reilly's OSDir.com (if you don't like it tell me how I can improve it)

Click the following link to Get the Code.

Or you can get the script and all related files in a tar file.

Edit the script to put in your Amazon affiliate id
@associate_ids = ("freewarfrommrrat");

Check the first line in it and make sure it points to the proper location of Perl on your server
#!/usr/bin/perl

Upload this cgi to your cgi-bin directory as ASCII and mark it as executable
chmod 775

That's all you have to do.
The script will now allow your visitors to search and browse through millions of bestselling items from Amazon.com

But wait, there's lots more you can do with this script.

Thanks to MrPat of P&S Creations we now have full documentation.

Be sure and read the Beginner's Guide to get started.

Then when you have the script up and running on your site you'll want to look over the Advanced Guide, the FAQ, and possibly the Variables List.

For a smaller, simpler solution for displaying a single product, or even just the image or price, you may want to check out my APF Banner script.

BTW:

this script uses Perl module LWP. It should be on your server, if not try:
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::LWP'

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You can discuss this script at MrRat's Scripts Support Forum

What's New:

06/25/03 - problem in <NOSCRIPT> part of oneclick_button fixed

06/14/03 - %%my_availability%% is now working for the UK! The script now uses ratlog.cgi if it is in the same location as the script.

06/12/03 - updated buy buttons to latest specifications and fixed a few broken nodes

history of changes

05/22/02 - script created.

p.s. I am not associated with Amazon.com in any way besides being an affiliate. I just wrote this script for ease of use.