Search Operations
The following table describes the Product Advertising API operations that find items.
| Operation | Description |
|---|---|
| ItemSearch | To find items sold by merchants and sellers. This operation is the one used most often to find items for sale. |
| SellerListingSearch | To find items sold by sellers. Although ItemSearch returns information about a seller's
items (if they are for sale in the Amazon marketplace), SellerListingSearch returns far more information about a
seller's items. |
| ListSearch | To find a customer's list and then the items on that list. |
| BrowseNodeLookup | To find items associated with browse nodes by navigating through the browse node hierarchy. This operation does not return items directly, only the browsenodes associated with items. |
| VehiclePartLookup | To find cars that a part works in. |
| VehiclePartSearch | To find parts for a car. |
| VehicleSearch | To find a car and its options based on the year, make, model, and trim. |
If you do not know whether an item is for sale by a merchant or seller, search first
using ItemSearch for two reasons:
-
Most of the items sold on Amazon are sold by merchants.
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Sellers often list their items for sale in Amazon's marketplace as well as in their own stores. Anything sold in the marketplace can be found by
ItemSearch.