For a given customer e-mail address or name, the CustomerContentSearch operation returns matching customer IDs, names, nicknames, and residence information (city, state, and country). In general, supplying an e-mail address returns unique results whereas supplying a name more often returns multiple results.

Often you use CustomerContentSearch to find a customer ID that you can use in the CustomerContentLookup operation, which returns more extensive customer information.

	Important
	You must never display customer IDs publicly. You may use them in requests only to look up information. You may associate that information with a customer's name or nickname but never his or her customer ID.

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CustomerContentSearch also accepts the parameters that all operations can use. For more information, see, Common Request Parameters

For more information about the parent elements of these tags, see the appropriate response group in Response Groups

Find a customer ID by supplying the customer’s e-mail address.

http://ecs.amazonaws.com/onca/xml?
Service=AWSECommerceService&
AWSAccessKeyId=[AWS Access Key ID]&
AssociateTag=[Associate ID]&
Operation=CustomerContentSearch&
e-mail=GeorgeWashington%40ISP.com

Note that the @ sign in the e-mail address is URL-encoded as %40. The response to this request is shown in, Response to Sample Request.

Find a customer ID by supplying the customer’s name.

http://ecs.amazonaws.com/onca/xml?
Service=AWSECommerceService&
AWSAccessKeyId=[AWS Access Key ID]&
AssociateTag=[Associate ID]&
Operation=CustomerContentSearch&
Name=George%20Washington

Note that blank spaces must be URL-encoded, as shown in this example.

<Customer>
  <CustomerId>A111111111</CustomerId> 
</Customer>
<Customer>
  <CustomerId>A2222222222</CustomerId> 
  <Nickname>WilliamShakespeare</Nickname> 
  <Location>
    <City>London</City> 
    <Country>England</Country> 
  </Location>
</Customer>