Amazon.co.uk

Does anybody know what the search url is for amazon.co.uk i.e. something like

www.amazon.co.uk/search?q= & text1.text

(^doesn't work)

I think it is somehow encrypted based on your PHP session ID and whatever searches you do are pegged to you ID and this prevents you from forces searches from outside links. I only looked at it for a moment though, there might be a way around it. Also it a POST not a GET, but that doesn't stop you from making a program to get things to work

Here is the start tag of the search form

Code:

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<form method="post" action="/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/026-5613174-6810835">

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The reason I mentioned PHP Session ID is because of the number after /search-handle-form/ but you might try just posting directly to: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...613174-6810835

Let me know if that works. :) Good luck.

PS - You need to post the information in proper format, including all INPUT or SELECT fields listed in the code below, if you need help getting the format right PM me.

Code:

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<form method="post" action="/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/026-5613174-6810835">
<td colspan=2 valign=middle align=center bgcolor="#FFCC66"><font face="verdana, arial, helvetica" size="-1">
<img src="http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/G/02/uk-welcome/navs/welcome-subnav-search-140x18.gif" width=140 height=18 border="0" align=middle alt="Search our Shops">
&nbsp;<input type="text" name="field-keywords" size="24" maxlength="255" value="">&nbsp;
&nbsp;
<select name="url" size="1">
<option value="index=blended" selected>All Products
<option value="index=books-uk" >Books
<option value="index=books-uk:ebooks" >e-Books
<option value="index=electronics-uk" >Electronics & Photo
<option value="index=music" >Popular Music
<option value="index=classical" >Classical Music
<option value="index=dvd-uk" >DVD
<option value="index=vhs-uk" >Video
<option value="index=software-uk" >Software
<option value="index=video-games-uk" >PC & Video Games
<option value="index=sw-vg-uk" >Software & Games
<option value="index=tools-uk" >DIY & Tools
<option value="index=garden-uk" >Garden & Outdoors
<option value="index=kitchen-uk" >Kitchen & Home
<option value="index=hpc-uk" >Personal Care
<option value="index=toys-uk" >Toys
<option value="index=auction-uk-redirect" >Auctions
<option value="index=zshops-uk-redirect" >zShops
</select>
&nbsp;
<input type="image" src=http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/G/02/uk-welcome/buttons/go-welcome-21x21.gif height="21" align="absmiddle" width="21" border="0" value="Go" name="Go">
</font>
</td></form>

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I've done a little bit of checking and i cant get to work. There may be another way round it but i dont know it lol.

Thanks for the help though.

Amazon supply an API to allow developers to access there stuff through code:

Check out there web services page and see if there's anything there that helps: http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html...?node=3435361&