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ItemLookup Operation

A2S Query

http://ecs.amazonaws.com/onca/xml?
   Service=AWSECommerceService
   &AWSAccessKeyId=--
   &AssociateTag=browsenodes-20
   &Operation=ItemLookup
   &ItemId=B00004U2GH,B00004U2GI,B00005QVHD,B0013D8EQK
   &RelationshipType=DigitalMusicPrimaryArtist
   &ResponseGroup=RelatedItems
   &Version=2100-01-01

The above URL executes an A2S ItemLookup query. The ItemLookup operation returns information about products which match the specified parameters such as ItemId.

A2S Response

The following is the XML response returned by A2S for the above query.
<ItemLookupResponse>
 <OperationRequest>
  <HTTPHeaders>
   <Header Name="UserAgent" Value="Oblio/1.0
(+http://www.rogersmithsoftware.com/)" />
  </HTTPHeaders>
  <RequestId>f5c742d3-75c4-4413-8a1b-9b88c2f2b0bb</Requ
estId>
  <Arguments>
   <Argument Name="AWSAccessKeyId" Value="--" />
   <Argument Name="AssociateTag" Value="browsenodes-20"
/>
   <Argument Name="Condition" Value="New" />
   <Argument Name="ItemId"
Value="B00004U2GH,B00004U2GI,B00005QVHD,B0013D8EQK" />
   <Argument Name="Operation" Value="ItemLookup" />
   <Argument Name="RelationshipType"
Value="DigitalMusicPrimaryArtist" />
   <Argument Name="ResponseGroup" Value="RelatedItems"
/>
   <Argument Name="Service" Value="AWSECommerceService"
/>
   <Argument Name="Timestamp"
Value="2019-08-18T12:10:29Z" />
   <Argument Name="Version" Value="2011-08-01" />
   <Argument Name="Signature" Value="--" />
  </Arguments>
  <RequestProcessingTime>0.1189742910000000</RequestPro
cessingTime>
 </OperationRequest>
 <Items>
  <Request>
   <IsValid>True</IsValid>
   <ItemLookupRequest>
    <Condition>New</Condition>
    <IdType>ASIN</IdType>
    <ItemId>B00004U2GH</ItemId>
    <ItemId>B00004U2GI</ItemId>
    <ItemId>B00005QVHD</ItemId>
    <ItemId>B0013D8EQK</ItemId>
    <ResponseGroup>RelatedItems</ResponseGrou
p>
    <VariationPage>All</VariationPage>
    <RelationshipType>DigitalMusicPrimaryArtist&
lt;/RelationshipType>
   </ItemLookupRequest>
  </Request>
  <Item>
   <ASIN>href="http://www.browsenodes.com/productnodes-B00004U2GH.html">B00004U2GHa></ASIN>
  </Item>
  <Item>
   <ASIN>href="http://www.browsenodes.com/productnodes-B00004U2GI.html">B00004U2GIa></ASIN>
  </Item>
  <Item>
   <ASIN>href="http://www.browsenodes.com/productnodes-B00005QVHD.html">B00005QVHDa></ASIN>
  </Item>
  <Item>
   <ASIN>href="http://www.browsenodes.com/productnodes-B0013D8EQK.html">B0013D8EQKa></ASIN>
   <RelatedItems>
    <Relationship>Children</Relationship>
    <RelationshipType>DigitalMusicPrimaryArtist&
lt;/RelationshipType>
    <RelatedItemCount>1</RelatedItemCount>
    <RelatedItemPageCount>1</RelatedItemPageC
ount>
    <RelatedItemPage>1</RelatedItemPage>
    <RelatedItem>
     <Item>
      <ASIN>href="http://www.browsenodes.com/productnodes-B000QJO1ZA.html">B000QJO1ZAa></ASIN>
     </Item>
    </RelatedItem>
   </RelatedItems>
  </Item>
 </Items>
</ItemLookupResponse>
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