Re: [Mod-pubsub-developer] Meg Hourihan: "mod_pubsub-enable Amazon"

[Jeff B. <je...@ve...>]

Neat. This is RAD at its finest - concept to deployment in 24 hours.

1 - What do you mean by missing slots? The Salesrank is global (across all products) so you won't find a monotonically increasing
sequence within a single product line.

2 - To fix the URLs, simply pass _your_ associate ID in the "t=" parameter when you make the REST request to Amazon.

3 - Here's a simple test page that I use for experimentation:

    http://www.syndic8.com/~jeff/b.html

You can enter new values into the various fields at the top, watch the URL change, and then see the data returned from the call at
the bottom. Note that the Amazon REST interface allows for an XSLT transform on the output, and that you can select from some
predefined style sheets by using the Transformation dropdown.

4 - The Amazon server is not going to notice a once-per-minute hit. We ask developers to hit us no more than once per second, but we
don't enforce this (yet). We are processing about 5 million requests every day; a few more isn't going to make much of a difference.

Jeff;

----- Original Message -----
From: "Asynch Messaging" <asy...@ho...>
To: "Jeff Barr" <je...@ve...>; "Adam Rifkin" <Ad...@Kn...>; "Scott Andrew LePera" <sc...@sc...>
Cc: <mod...@li...>; <me...@me...>; "Tommy Hui" <th...@Kn...>
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Mod-pubsub-developer] Meg Hourihan: "mod_pubsub-enable Amazon"


> Okay - I've updated the app to sort based on SalesRank. Still getting
> missing slots from Amazon.
> I show the up/down motion via a little graphic.
> Updated the background schedule for once a minute. We'll see if the server
> running that script pukes or if Amazon shuts me out.
> Also... Jeff said the URLs don't incorporate my affiliateID correctly - does
> anyone else have examples of this?
>
> http://www.topiczero.com:8000/kn_apps/amazonpop/
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Barr" <je...@ve...>
> To: "Adam Rifkin" <Ad...@Kn...>; "Asynch Messaging"
> <asy...@ho...>; "Scott Andrew LePera"
> <sc...@sc...>
> Cc: <mod...@li...>; <me...@me...>; "Tommy
> Hui" <th...@Kn...>
> Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 1:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [Mod-pubsub-developer] Meg Hourihan: "mod_pubsub-enable Amazon"
>
>
> > This is awesome. Sales rank data actually changes very frequently. I have
> done some regression tests against catalog data, running
> > the old and new tests just minutes apart. I will frequently see changes in
> sales rank within this time window.
> >
> > You do need to fix the URIs:
> >
> >
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=webservices-20%26creative=D2W
> 7SBNOI2U2ML%26camp=2025%26link_code=xm2%26path=ASIN/B000
> > 05AUGP
> >
> > Change webservices-20 to your own associate id in order to get credit for
> purchases.
> >
> > For extra sizzle, would it be possible to show old and new sales rank, and
> then indicate with an icon or a color the direction of
> > the change?
> >
> > Jeff;
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Adam Rifkin" <Ad...@Kn...>
> > To: "Asynch Messaging" <asy...@ho...>; "Scott Andrew
> LePera" <sc...@sc...>
> > Cc: <mod...@li...>; <me...@me...>; "Tommy
> Hui" <th...@Kn...>
> > Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 10:38 AM
> > Subject: RE: [Mod-pubsub-developer] Meg Hourihan: "mod_pubsub-enable
> Amazon"
> >
> >
> > > This is a beautiful thing, Mike.
> > >
> > > Now, how can we give it some extra sizzle?
> > >
> > >    :) Adam
>