Item Format Lookup Help (Retrieving Price and Genre of a Book)

  • I read in one of the FAQs that you could not retrieve a price automatically from Amazon. Is that true?

    On my site I am trying to looking up multiple books by ASIN and displaying their information including price and genre. Under the template section of a unit there is the Item Format which allows you to pick which information is grabbed from Amazon and displayed on your site (ex. %image%, %title%, %rating%). When I use %price% the price never shows up.

    Along with that is there a way to look up the genre of the book with something on the Item Format list such as %genre%? I know that authors are allowed to categorize each of their books on Amazon with up to 3 sub-genres. Is there any way to retrieve that data?

    Thanks for your help!

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  • Plugin Author miunosoft

    (@miunosoft)

    Hi,

    The %genre% variable is not supported at the moment, sorry. I’ll see if it can be done.

    As for the issue of the price not showing up with the %price% variable, you should check the Now Retrieving Message unit option in the Common Advanced section. The option should be enabled. And you should see a message “Now retrieving the price” while the data are fetched.

    If you don’t see neither the message nor the price while enabling the option. It is a problem. I suggest you switch back to the default theme temporarily to see if the problem still persists.

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