I've been trying to do this same thing for quite some time. I can tell
with some certainty that there is NO search-inside-the-book info within
the API response.
--Charles Ledvina
Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
Anyoen more familiar with Amazon Web Services than me (AWS) and know
the answer to this?
Can I tell from my AWS API response if search inside the book is
available? Is that information anywhere?
Right now, I'm calculating what the search inside the book URL _would_
be from the ASIN (which I get from the AWS), and then making a request
to that url---and then screen-scraping for the phrase "temporarily
unavailable" which is what they say if search inside the book doesn't
exist. Sadly, they don't return 404 status in this case, they return
200 status with that message.
But this is messy. And slows down my app, since I need to make a
second http request to amazon.
Anyone know if there's any way to predict it from the AWS response?
The AWS documentation and my actual in practice AWS response examples
are both overwhelming and confusing me. :)
Jonathan
