Feature:90144 Check for and use Amazon images
Revision as of 13:33, 14 April 2007 by Marc Kupper (talk | contribs)
- Feature:90144 Check for and use Amazon images OPEN One of the editors left a comment on how to get from the URL for an Amazon "Look Inside" image that has a white box around it and the arrow on top into the original image. It turns out that for a given ISBN, 0886777992 in this example, or ASIN you can use the URLs
- - large - limited to 400 pixels high and/or wide. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0886777992.01.SZZZZZZZ.jpg
- - medium - seems to be 140 pixels high and/or wide. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0886777992.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg
- - thumbnail - 60 pixels high and/or wide. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0886777992.01.THUMBZZZZZZZ.jpg
- This only works for images uploaded by the publisher or a dealer. It does not work for customer uploaded images. If you use an invalid ISBN/ASIN, or one that does not have a publisher/dealer image, then Amazon returns a 1x1 image. ISFDB could also check via AWS to see if the images exist. My thinking as a feature request would be to auto-check to see if an image is available, to display the medium by default, and when you click to link to either the large image or to the containing page. See the detailed notes page for a version that shows the images. Marc Kupper (talk) 12:33, 14 Apr 2007 (CDT)