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Author Page Parameters

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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 for a single author on Amazon.

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For example, to request data from the authors page for the author-ASIN B000APVZ7W on amazon.com the request would be:

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Author Page Parameters

The following parameters are available for all requests made when type=author_page .

Parameter

Required

Description

amazon_domain

optional

The Amazon domain to retrieve author page data for the author specified in the asin parameter. For a full list of supported Amazon domains see Supported Amazon Domains .

Note : If the amazon_domain and asin parameters are supplied then the url parameter is ignored.

asin

optional

The Amazon author ASIN to retrieve author page data for. Used in combination with the amazon_domain parameter.

Note : If the asin and amazon_domain parameters are supplied then the url parameter is ignored.

url

optional

The Amazon author page URL to retrieve data from.

Note : If the url parameter is supplied then the amazon_domain and asin parameters are ignored.

sort_by

optional

Determines the sort order of author titles array that is returned.

Valid values are:

  1. popularity
  2. Sort the author titles array by most popular first.



  1. price_low_to_high
  2. Sort the author titles array by lowest price first.



  1. price_high_to_low
  2. Sort the author titles array by highest price first.



  1. average_review
  2. Sort the author titles array by highest average review first.



  1. publication_date
  2. Sort the author titles array by most recent publication date first.



  1. most_reviews
  2. Sort the author titles array by those with the most reviews first.
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format_id

optional

A format ID to determine the format of author titles returned in the titles array. Format ID's are returned in the format_ids array in each type=author_page results (this is necessary are the format_id value is dynamic and can change over time).

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page

optional

The current page of author page titles to retrieve. This pagination affects the titles array (which contains all the titles/books by the given author). Inspect the pagination.total_pages property in the author page results to see how many pages of author titles are available.

max_page

optional

Use the max_page parameter to get multiple pages of results in one request. The API will automatically paginate through pages and concatenate the results into one response.

See the Pagination docs for more information.



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Updated 11 Aug 2024
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