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    Displaying Amazon reviews?

    Does anyone know of a method to display reviews from Amazon on a Miva site? We sell a lot of our products on Amazon as well as our own website and would like to display the Amazon reviews on the Miva site.

    Thanks,
    Eric

    #2
    Re: Displaying Amazon reviews?

    I love Google; it's like the whole Internet is my user manual :^) . A quick search for "Amazon review API" turned up this:

    http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEComme...erReviews.html

    It looks simple enough. If it turns out that you need some custom programming, drop me a line.
    Kent Multer
    Magic Metal Productions
    http://TheMagicM.com
    * Web developer/designer
    * E-commerce and Miva
    * Author, The Official Miva Web Scripting Book -- available on-line:
    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/IS...icmetalproducA

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      #3
      Re: Displaying Amazon reviews?

      Thanks, Kent. I saw this too. But I think it uses an iframe and is only good for 24 hours. We use Sebenza's Ultimate Reviews module and was trying to figure out a way to just pull the Amazon data into it. I doubt this will be possible, though.

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        #4
        Re: Displaying Amazon reviews?

        If the data's available, a custom module should be able to retrieve it and write it into the same DB table where the Sebenza module stores the in-house reviews. I've done that kind of "4th-party" hookup before.
        Kent Multer
        Magic Metal Productions
        http://TheMagicM.com
        * Web developer/designer
        * E-commerce and Miva
        * Author, The Official Miva Web Scripting Book -- available on-line:
        http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/IS...icmetalproducA

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          #5
          Re: Displaying Amazon reviews?

          Kent, do you know where Sebenza stores the reviews information and how to access it? Sebenza has been absolutely no help with previous issues we've had. I would consider them out of business at this point.

          The only other issue I thought about is the legality of reposting the Amazon reviews, if Amazon considers them their "property".

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            #6
            Re: Displaying Amazon reviews?

            "if Amazon considers them their "property"."

            Amazon considers EVERYTHING to be their property ;-)

            http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.1808939
            Last edited by Siamese-Dream.Com; 07-18-14, 11:15 AM.
            Mark Romero
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              #7
              Re: Displaying Amazon reviews?

              A while ago I wrote a module that pulls reviews out of the Sebenza module; the client wanted to store them in another place. So I have some experience with the DB, as well as similar hookups to other modules of theirs. I know that Sebenza has been the subject of a number of complaints lately; but I've found their modules' DB designs to be "clean" and easy to work with.
              Kent Multer
              Magic Metal Productions
              http://TheMagicM.com
              * Web developer/designer
              * E-commerce and Miva
              * Author, The Official Miva Web Scripting Book -- available on-line:
              http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/IS...icmetalproducA

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                #8
                Re: Displaying Amazon reviews?

                If you do a little digging, the iframe via API is your only choice. Anything otherwise would be extremely risky as mentioned previously. I highly recommend against implementing something that would place Amazon's reviews in the Sebenza Ultimate Product Reviews & Ratings database. Your opening yourself up to litigation.

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