How do I construct a url to search Amazon's kindle store?

January 28, 2012 11:21 AM

How do I construct a URL so that it will search Amazon's Kindle store with any text I append to the end of it? I can create one to search all of Amazon (by simply taking the URL I get as the result of an ordinary search and adding words to the end), but I can't find a way of specifying in the URL that it should only search the Kindle store.
posted by humblepigeon to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

Best answer: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=METAFILTER

Replace "METAFILTER" with your search terms.
posted by EndsOfInvention at 11:24 AM on January 28, 2012 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: How odd -- I did try that but it didn't seem to work. It seemed to revert to a standard Amazon search. But now it seems to work fine. Out of interest, does anybody know what the X= and Y= bits are that appear at the end of a search?
posted by humblepigeon at 11:29 AM on January 28, 2012

I'm not gettin x or y on amazon searches but if the search button is an image rather than a submit button the x and y coordinates of where you clicked get passed into the query string
posted by missmagenta at 11:47 AM on January 28, 2012