August 2003
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
7h 33m
English
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Compare International Sales
Find out what products are hot on either side of the pond with Amazon locale-based queries.
Why are
some albums more popular in the U.K.
than in the U.S.? This hack can’t answer that question, but it can
point out what the differences are. It uses two features of AWS
requests, sort and locale, to
generate parallel lists of bestsellers by artist.
The Code
This ASP code makes two ArtistSearch requests.
Both are sorted by sales rank, and the only difference between the
two is the setting for the locale. In the first
query, locale is left blank, for the default
Amazon.com store. The other query sets the locale
to uk, searching Amazon.co.uk. Create a file
called
us_vs_uk.asp
with the following
code:
<html>
<head>
<title>International Sales</title>
</head>
<body>
<%
Dim arUSResults(10,4)
Dim arUKResults(10,4)
Sub AmazonTopArtist(artist,locale)
' Set Associate ID and Developer Token
AssociatesID = "insert associate tag"
DeveloperToken = "insert developer token"
' Form the request URL
XMLURL = "http://xml.amazon.com/onca/xml3" & _
"?t=" & AssociateID & _
"&dev-t=" & DeveloperToken & _
"&page=1" & _
"&f=xml" & _
"&mode=music" & _
"&type=lite" & _
"&sort=+salesrank" & _
"&ArtistSearch=" & Server.URLEncode(artist)
If locale = "uk" Then
XMLURL = XMLURL & "&locale=uk" End If Set xmlhttp = Server.CreateObject("Msxml2.SERVERXMLHTTP") xmlhttp.Open "GET", XMLURL, false xmlhttp.Send(Now) ' Issue the request and wait for the response Set ProductInfo = xmlhttp.ResponseXML ...Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
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