August 2003
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
7h 33m
English
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Add an Amazon Box to Your Site
Add a quick list of products to your site based on a category or keyword.
If you run a weblog, you probably have a nice, long sidebar filled with links to your favorite sites. You could turn some of this web real estate into a money-maker with associate links. But who has time to find the top products in a given category, copy the URLs to the product detail pages, and place them all in order on your site? That’s what an Amazon Box is for.
What’s an Amazon Box? It’s a simple HTML table that contains a list of products and that links to Amazon with your associate tag. You can use a Perl script by Rael Dornfest called Amazox to generate the box, making your life easier.
Amazox is run on-the-fly from the command line with the variables needed, so it’s easy to quickly create several boxes with different configurations if you have more than one page you’d like to add a box to.
The Code
This Perl script queries Amazon based on command-line arguments you supply. It requires two standard Perl modules: XML::Simple (http://search.cpan.org/author/GRANTM/) and LWP::UserAgent (http://search.cpan.org/author/GAAS/). Many Perl installations have these modules already installed, or you can find them on CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (http://www.cpan.org/).
Be sure to include your associate tag and developer token in the
right spots. You can configure which Amazon catalog to search by
changing the $product_line variable.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w # amazon_box.pl ...
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