Hi! :-)
We need some help with using the Amazon Product Advertising API.
We are experiencing some difficulty with maintaining the same category hierarchy and search results as on [login to view URL] website.
We used this table ([login to view URL]) to get root category IDs and noticed that many categories have the same NodeID (for example, Electronics, PCHardware, Photo, Toys, VideoGames have the same ID 493964) while on [login to view URL] they exist as separate "departments" and show different children categories and search results.
Another NodeID 1079730 for category "Watches" reported as invalid by the API so we can't get anything from that category.
Particularly, we need an ability to get children categories and search products in these categories:
Amazon Instant Video
Apps for Android
Baby
Cell Phones and Acccessories
Clothing and Accessories
Computers
Furniture
Gift Cards
Movies and TV
Pet Supplies
Sports and Outdoors
Toys & Games
Video Games
Watches
You have to provide us clear developer instructions on how this problem could be solved as well as PHP code example demonstrating getting children categories and performing item search by keywords in these categories based on your solution.
We need children categories returned and item search to be as close as possible to [login to view URL] results.
If you prove your expertise with this project, this may result in even more future work with the API!
Please don't post your information "in the open." Send me a PM and we will discuss there.
Thanks!