How do I get a book graphic and description from the Amazon Book API?

Question

This URL sends an ISBN number to Amazon and gets back a small bit of XML including author, title, and publisher.

However, I also want to get small, medium and large

Answer 1

I have build some functions to grab amazon xml using php and curl using simple functions just like this:

    $value)
{
$slugs = str_replace("%7E", "~", rawurlencode($slugs));
$value = str_replace("%7E", "~", rawurlencode($value));
$query_slug[] = $slugs."=".$value;
}
$query_slug = implode("&", $query_slug);
$signinurl = $method."\n".$host."\n".$uri."\n".$query_slug;
$signature = base64_encode(hash_hmac("sha256", $signinurl, $secretkey, True)); // Get Amazon Signature API
$signature = str_replace("%7E", "~", rawurlencode($signature));
$request = "http://".$host.$uri."?".$query_slug."&Signature=".$signature;
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/4.0; Microsoft Windows) KHTML/4.0.80 (like Gecko)");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $request);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $response;
}
?>