pugdog
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Mar 5, 2004, 8:57 AM
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I'm working on a new product, that I hope can be a plugin, but which will also run on an entire site.
I've been looking at dynamically importing Amazon book/video/dvd into several of my sites, and it seems the Amazon interface is now good enough to do this.
There are two concepts here, which are not mutually exclusive, by any means, but more like two extremes of the same theme.
1) Pull all the information dynamically all the time. this means searches run on amazon, each search is sent to them, and they return the data.
2) Search YOUR LOCAL database, which is populated either by running amazon searches, or manually, and only THOSE titles have data which is fetched in real time (so availability, pricing, etc is up to date). This data *is* cached in the database, for speed (ie: any record that is less than 6 hours old won't be be recached, but if amazon is down or a link broken for any reason, old data is available in a "last good" format).
3) (there is always a 3rd thing in an either/or <G>) The shopping cart will attempt to run on your site, and only send you to amazon for final checkout. Again, I have strong feelings for this, and if I make it work, there is no reason to do it any other way. This keeps people fully on your site until they go to pay. The new API seems to support this, and I'd like to make it work. *PLEASE* don't ask to support other payment systems, etc <G> This is an AMAZON INTERFACE ;)
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