[thelist] Amazon URLs for Associate program

[martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com]

Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Yes it does, Erik, that's Amazon's instruction to the associates and I've
never seen it not work.

It's pretty handy for producing book lists from a CMS (even if it's
only a modified guestbook like I use for my own book list:
http://www.easyweb.co.uk/articles/now_reading.html) because
everything falls out from the SKU, even the images.

Although when you go into Amazon, it throws on a bunch of session IDs,
and some of its internal linking uses different URL schema.

Cheers
Martin


To:   thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject:  [thelist] Amazon URLs for Associate program


I've got a ton of URLs for Amazon products that I need to make into
URLs that will credit a client's associates program and want to
change them all at once with a regex. I can't find any info
explaining the URL parameters, but it seems like this is how it goes

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/productID/associateID

Does anybody know if it always looks like this for any single product?


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