Response
Description
Name
Container object for a parent browse node.
Ancestors
Container object for all browse node data, including browse node ID,
browse node name, browse node children and ancestors.
BrowseNode
A positive integer that uniquely identifies a product group, such as
Literature & Fiction: (17), Medicine: (13996), and Mystery & Thrillers:
(18).
BrowseNodeId
Container for one or more browse nodes, which are the children of the
browse node submitted in the request.
Children
Name of the BrowseNode, for example, the name of BrowseNode 17
is Literature & Fiction.
Name
For more information about the parent elements of these tags, see the appropriate response group in
Response Groups (p. 213)
Examples
Use
BrowseNodeLookup
iteratively to navigate through the hierarchy of browse nodes. In this way,
customers can refine their searches, for example.
DVD>Actors & Actresses>Steve Martin
DVD>Used DVDs>Kids & Family
The first hierarchy narrows the search down to DVDs in which Steve Martin plays a part. The second
hierarchy narrows the list of DVDs down to those that are suitable for Kids and Family. This node, for
example, might contain thirty such DVD titles.
The following request returns the name, parent, and children of the browse node for DVD comedies
(163357)
http://webservices.amazon.com/onca/xml?
Service=AWSECommerceService&
AWSAccessKeyId=
[AWS Access Key ID]
&
Operation=BrowseNodeLookup&
BrowseNodeId=163357
&Timestamp=[YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ]
&Signature=[Request Signature]
The response to this request is shown in
Sample Response (p. 167)
.
Use the
NewReleases (p. 251)
response group to display the newly released items for a specified browse
node:
http://webservices.amazon.com/onca/xml?
Service=AWSECommerceService&
AWSAccessKeyId=
[AWS Access Key ID]
&
Operation=BrowseNodeLookup&
BrowseNodeId=163357&
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BrowseNodeLookup
