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Amazon Introduces Web Services Interface

Posted by timothy on from the smartliness dept.

skunkeh writes: "Amazon have launched a brand new web service interface to their huge database of products. The interface can be used through SOAP or by requesting XML pages via URL, and their development kit comes with example code in Java and Perl. A Python wrapper is also available, and I have released some sample code in PHP."

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  1. An excellent application... by darylp · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've been wowed by this little application here:

    http://mockerybird.com/index.cgi?node=book+watch

    It takes an XML formatted list of books from one web service, looks these books up via the Amazon API, then runs a search on the titles via the Google API. Combining three separate services into one unified system.

    The people wondering "Why bother?" when Google released their Web Service missed the point entirely. One service isn't anything special. It's what you can do when you combine a couple of them that makes things interesting.

    Ideally, the Book Watch Plus application can be converted into a Web Service itself, so someone else can use it as a component in THEIR application.