AWS Question

[Mike]

Hi all,

Does anyone know if Amazon allows you to just fetch an image from AWS, and display it? Or do you have to have a link on the same page?

Cheers,
Mike

[MarkB]

Pretty sure you can. Is this something you want to do on the fly, or...? Cos all you should need is their product code, and then put it into a pre-constructed IMG url :)

[Mike]

Yup, something I want to do on the fly...

I'm wanting to do it exactly as you say :)

I'm planning to show the image and a description (my words), with a link to a page that will link to Amazon. If ya get that!

[James]

http://aaugh.com/imageabuse.html is a good resource for learning about Amazon's images.

[Mike]

Interesting link, thanks James. I think I will use the help from that page to display the images.

So its not against Amazon's TOS or anything to display just the images on a page without a link to an amazon page?

Cheers.

[ogito]

thanks for the link, James

[James]

So its not against Amazon's TOS or anything to display just the images on a page without a link to an amazon page?
I can't see anything in it that could be seen as such; as long as the only modification is resizing the image, you should be fine. Amazon's usually pretty good about this, anyways.

[Blue Cat Buxton]

James that is a great link thanks.

Mike, I do this on my aws sites (using the webpub script) - Page 1 show 10 product images that link to a detail page which then links to Amazon. There are no direct links from page 1.

[Mike]

Ah right, cheers guys!