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Author Page
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author page parameters get get /request the author page parameters are applicable when making a request with type=author page to retrieve data from the authors page single author on amazon the author is specified using either the author asin and amazon domain parameters or the url parameter (where the url parameter contains a link to an amazon authors page) the parameters should be appended as querystring parameters to the product data api get http request author page data is retrieved from the author page https //www amazon com/kindle dbs/entity/author/b000apvz7w for a single author on amazon for example, to request data from the authors page for the author asin b000apvz7w on amazon com the request would be http https //api rainforestapi com/request?api key=demo\&type=author page\&amazon domain=amazon com\&asin=b000apvz7wcurl l get https //api rainforestapi com/request \\ d api key="demo" \\ d type="author page" \\ d amazon domain="amazon com" \\ d asin="b000apvz7w"const axios = require('axios'); // set up the request parameters const params = { api key "demo", type "author page", amazon domain "amazon com", asin "b000apvz7w" } // make the http get request to rainforest api axios get('https //api rainforestapi com/request', { params }) then(response => { // print the json response from rainforest api console log(json stringify(response data, 0, 2)); }) catch(error => { // catch and print the error console log(error); })import requests import json \# set up the request parameters params = { 'api key' 'demo', 'type' 'author page', 'amazon domain' 'amazon com', 'asin' 'b000apvz7w' } \# make the http get request to rainforest api api result = requests get('https //api rainforestapi com/request', params) \# print the json response from rainforest api print(json dumps(api result json()))\<?php \# set up the request parameters $querystring = http build query(\[ 'api key' => 'demo', 'type' => 'author page', 'amazon domain' => 'amazon com', 'asin' => 'b000apvz7w' ]); \# make the http get request to rainforest api $ch = curl init(sprintf('%s?%s', 'https //api rainforestapi com/request', $querystring)); curl setopt($ch, curlopt returntransfer, true); curl setopt($ch, curlopt followlocation, true); \# the following options are required if you're using an outdated openssl version \# more details https //www openssl org/blog/blog/2021/09/13/letsencryptrootcertexpire/ curl setopt($ch, curlopt ssl verifyhost, false); curl setopt($ch, curlopt ssl verifypeer, false); curl setopt($ch, curlopt timeout, 180); $api result = curl exec($ch); curl close($ch); \# print the json response from rainforest api echo $api result; ?> author page parameters the following parameters are available for all requests made when type=author page true falsefalse left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type next steps author page results https //docs trajectdata com/rainforestapi/product data api/results/author page