Req'd?
Definition
Parameter
No
An optional parameter that can be used to filter search
results and offer listings to only include items sold by
Amazon. By default, the API will return items sold by
various merchants including Amazon. Valid values:
• Amazon Only items sold by Amazon are included in the
response.
MerchantId
Yes
Specifies the Product Advertising API operation to execute.
Valid Value: An Product Advertising API operation, for
example,
ItemLookup
Operation
Yes
Specifies the Product Advertising API service. There is
only one value for all Product Advertising API operations.
Valid Value: AWSECommerceService
Service
No
Controls the format of the data returned in Product
Advertising API responses.
Style
only pertains to REST
requests. Set this parameter to "XML," the default, to
generate a pure XML response. Set this parameter to the
URL of an XSLT stylesheet to have Product Advertising
API transform the XML response. See
ContentType
Default: XML
Valid Values: URL of an XSLT stylesheet
.
Style
No
Prevents an operation from executing. Set the
Validate
parameter to True to test your request without actually
executing it. When present,
Validate
must equal True;
the default value is False. If a request is not actually
executed (Validate=True), only a subset of the errors for
a request may be returned because some errors (for
example, no_exact_matches) are only generated during
the execution of a request.
Default: False
Valid Values: True, False
Validate
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