Bug 8631

Summary:	Amazon wish-list look-ups
Product:	Koha	Reporter:	Liz Rea <wizzyrea>
Component:	OPAC	Assignee:	Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P5 - low	CC:	egpetridis, wizzyrea
Version:	Main
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Liz Rea 2012-08-13 14:21:41 UTC

From Manos Petridis on the Koha list:

"Add the facility to look-up Amazon wish-lists and add their contents (conditionally if possible) as purchase suggestions.

It would be useful to be able to paste the URLs of the various lists to a window and have Koha recurse/run through them, provide the aggregated result list for verification, and then add the selected items as purchase suggestions to the library.

I understand that this could be expanded to cover many other on-line shops, it's just that I'm a long-time Amazon customer and keep my wish-lists there."

I might add that it might also be nice to be able to import at least title/author into Koha's lists from a wishlist and make it a "click to search" so patrons can easily tell if a book they have on their wishlist is in the library. If the item was found during wishlist import, it would link directly to the item.

Comment 1 Owen Leonard 2012-08-14 14:40:08 UTC

There is no official API at this time for accessing Amazon wish lists. Apparently it once existed but was seldom used so they killed it. If we were to add this we'd have to use a hack like screen-scraping:

https://github.com/doitlikejustin/amazon-wish-lister

It seems an unlikely project for Koha since Amazon API support is broken in almost all other areas.