Amazon announces RSS support for Tags
Amazon has just announced its intention to provide RSS feeds for Consumer tags.
Tags are a way for you, the Amazon customer, to categorize and find items within the Amazon retail ecosystem. This provides an alternative way to sort your items and for others to find items based on how the user community at Amazon chooses to organize goods and services.
This announcement seems like a very early teaser but they do promise to roll this out over the coming weeks. I’ve tried several tags but no RSS feeds show up yet. In any case here’s how it would work:
Say you are interested in discovering new electronics that support Blu-ray Discs, you could monitor the RSS feed that is generated for all items tagged as Blu-ray and display it on your site or consume it via an RSS reader. If you use ZapTXT, you can filter this Blu-ray RSS feed for specific topics such as Hitachi (if you only want Hitachi products that support Blu-Ray), or ‘Kung-Fu Hustle” (if you want the Blu-Ray version of the DVD) and use the delivery mechanism of your choice (IM, Skype, Email or Mobile) to recieve an alert when we find a match.
Once Amazon releases this functionality on the website in a more prominent fashion, I will update this post with more details on where to find the feeds for tags.
Note to Team Amazon: extend RSS support to search results (get an RSS feed for a product or any search you do on Amazon, similar to what eBay does).
Ian McAllister has a details on the program here if you’d like to know more. [Via]
Happy Zapping,Sameer
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