How to retrieve all book categories from Amazon by ASIN? - amazon-product-api

Question

Could anybody tell how to retrieve list of categories from a book by ASIN like this website does?

Answer 1

Use the Amazon Product Advertising API v5 for this. Create a GetItems request with the ASIN (e.g 1641521198) as ItemsId and request the BrowserNoteInfo.BrowserNodes and BrowserNoteInfo.BrowserNodes.Ancestor as ressources.
The response will look like the following:
{
"ItemsResult": {
"Items": [
{
"ASIN": "1641521198",
"BrowseNodeInfo": {
"BrowseNodes": [
{
"Ancestor": {
"Ancestor": {
"Ancestor": {
"Ancestor": {
"ContextFreeName": "Books",
"DisplayName": "Books",
"Id": "283155"
},
"ContextFreeName": "Subjects",
"DisplayName": "Subjects",
"Id": "1000"
},
"ContextFreeName": "Cookbooks, Food & Wine",
"DisplayName": "Cookbooks, Food & Wine",
"Id": "6"
},
"ContextFreeName": "Baking",
"DisplayName": "Baking",
"Id": "4196"
},
"ContextFreeName": "Bread Baking",
"DisplayName": "Bread",
"Id": "4197",
"IsRoot": false
},
{
"Ancestor": {
"Ancestor": {
"Ancestor": {
"Ancestor": {
"ContextFreeName": "Books",
"DisplayName": "Books",
"Id": "283155"
},
"ContextFreeName": "Subjects",
"DisplayName": "Subjects",
"Id": "1000"
},
"ContextFreeName": "Cookbooks, Food & Wine",
"DisplayName": "Cookbooks, Food & Wine",
"Id": "6"
},
"ContextFreeName": "Cooking by Ingredient",
"DisplayName": "Cooking by Ingredient",
"Id": "4208"
},
"ContextFreeName": "Natural Food Cooking",
"DisplayName": "Natural Foods",
"Id": "4340",
"IsRoot": false
},
{
"Ancestor": {
"Ancestor": {
"Ancestor": {
"Ancestor": {
"ContextFreeName": "Books",
"DisplayName": "Books",
"Id": "283155"
},
"ContextFreeName": "Subjects",
"DisplayName": "Subjects",
"Id": "1000"
},
"ContextFreeName": "Cookbooks, Food & Wine",
"DisplayName": "Cookbooks, Food & Wine",
"Id": "6"
},
"ContextFreeName": "Main Courses & Side Dishes",
"DisplayName": "Main Courses & Side Dishes",
"Id": "4234"
},
"ContextFreeName": "Garnishing Meals",
"DisplayName": "Garnishes",
"Id": "7696136011",
"IsRoot": false
}
]
},
"DetailPageURL": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/1641521198?tag=getabstractcom&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1"
}
]
}
}
With that data you should be able to determinate the categories such as
Books » Cookbooks, Food & Wine » Baking » Bread Baking
or
Books » Cookbooks, Food & Wine » Main Courses & Side Dishes » Garnishing Meals
More information about the PAAPI5 you find here. There exists as well some SDK for different programming languages such as Java, PHP, Node or Python.