Net::Amazon and Net::Amazon::Property 1

[spperl]

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone knows of a way to return the amazon stock quantity of a given product using Net::Amazon

e.g.

my $response = $ua->search(<<an ean>>)
for ($response->properties()) {
    $_->ThirdPartyNewCount(); # returns the total new count for all resellers

however this does not actually specify if the title is in stock on amazon?

Does anyone know of any methods that can provide this?

Thanks

 

[GeekyDeaks]

Hi spperl,

This answer is something of a guess as I don't have an amazon account test it with.

There is a method called Availability() within NET::Amazon:roperty which seems to have a textual description of the item availability. On the amazon web site, if I look at an item marked In Stock, the div id is labelled availability_feature_div. I'd give this one a go to start with.

Failing that you might try to do a print Data:umper->Dump([$response]) and see if it has anything useful in it.

Cheers,
Scott

 

[spperl]

Great shout regarding Availability!

Having iterated over a few examples I can easily parse the availability string to determine if in stock or not.

Nice one, thank you and have a star!