Mar 08 2004
Amazon.com Syndicated Content
What is it?
Amazon.com Syndicated Content is delivered in RSS format. RSS is a standard format (in XML) for delivering content that changes on a regular basis. Content is delivered in small chunks, generally a synopsis, preview, or headline. Selected categories, subcategories and search results in Amazon.com stores now have RSS feeds associated with them, delivering a headline-view of the top 10 bestsellers in that category or set of search results. (view an example RSS feed for topselling DVDs)
How to use it?
There are a number of applications collectively called RSS Newsreaders designed to read, manage and display content from RSS feeds. Some of these are standalone applications, others run in your browser.
Sample Feeds
Below are listed some of Amazon.com’s most popular categories and their respective RSS URLs (click on the orange “xml” image to bring up the RSS document).