Not universally available, you need to be an associate, but Amazon
offers this, which is done by javascript:
https://widgets.amazon.com/Amazon-QuickLinker-Widget
Add Quick Linker Widget
After you install this widget to your blog or Web Page, you can quickly
and easily link to relevant Amazon.com products as you write your blog
posts or update your page content by including custom HTML tags as you
type. Your Quick Links will have your Associates ID automatically
included. Learn more
* a type=amzn Harry Potter/a
o Links to Amazon.com search results page for Harry Potter.
* a type=amzn search=Harry PotterMy favorite hero/a
o The link reads My favorite hero and points to a search
results page for the phraseHarry Potter.
* a type=amzn search=Harry Potter category=booksMy favorite
hero/a
o Links to a search results page for the phrase Harry
Potter, but only in the Books category.
o View a list of valid Amazon.com category attributes
* a type=amzn asin=B12345I love this item/a
o The link reads I love this item and links directly to the
specific Amazon product with Amazon id (ASIN) B12345
For some reason the code I used with my associate account at amazon.com
doesn't work, but the code with the account at amazon.ca does. Sadly
many items aren't available in Canada and many people need to use the
USA site.
Adam van den Hoven said the following on 12/06/2008 05:20 PM:
If you wrote a simple parameterized snippet (you'd need that extension
too), you could easily set things up so that you have:
r:snippet name=amazon id=123456789 Some Cool book /r:snippet
its not exactly what you want but it would be 80% of the way there!
On 6-Dec-08, at 12:53 PM, Anton J Aylward wrote:
Another Blog related question.
I'm using KDE/Linux. The browser, Konqueror, has 'shorthand' or
'abbreviations', such as 'cpan', 'jeeves', 'google', 'ggmovie', 'wp'
(for wikipedia).
It occurs to me that I'm making a lot of references to Amazon in my
blog. It would be nice to be able to write amazon:9620102 and
have
a reference to that isbn or product id. Even better if it also has my
Associates ID in there as well :-)
There's something like this on Rory Hansen's site
http://www.roryhansen.ca/category/ruby-on-rails/
:-( Shame I'm not a programmer :-(
The Amazon example is clearly useful. I can think of a couple of
others
that are marginal like YouTube and Twitter and Flickr. Perhaps a
'configurable' url-abbreviation-expander is the right idea, like in
Konqueror.
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Security should be as intuitive as possible. -- Bruce Schneier
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