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Nowadays is commoner to see open Web Services’ APIs allowing external access to the data of its Web Applications. Thus any web developer can use the original Web Application infrasctructure and intelligence to make his or her own Application, this is like remixing the Web.

Today boo-box is lauching its public API, now you can use our wonderful product recommendation services to make your own recommendation application.
Advantages:

• We make the impossible to give better results. Our recommendations algorithm is constantly updated; bringing more relevant products to your audience.
• You can use boo-box API to do a search even on an e-commerce that do not have a public API.
• We have a powerfull cache system, which make search quicker than original APIs (that is magic!)
• You can show boo-box’s recommendation with whicheaver look you like, not restraining yourself to the lightbox (but you have to admit that our box is pretty charming).
• It will return a very slim XML code, quicker to load and read, smaller and simpler than XML from e-commerces.

Therefore as any other boo-box’s services to use our API is very simple, you just have to make a request to this following address changing the aff, uid and tags fields:
http://boo-box.com/api/format:xml/aff:ecommid/uid:userid/tags:searchterms

1. 1. aff: this field identifies the affiliated program, it also identifies the ecommerce that the API will perform the search for products, the options are:
   1. amazonid
   2. amazonukid
   3. amazonjpid
   4. amazonfrid
   5. amazondeid
   6. ebayid
   7. mercadolivreid
   8. submarinoid
   9. americanasid
2. uid: in this field you have to place your affiliated program ’s code, that code allows the ecommerce to identify you and to pay your referral revenue. Our affiliated code, for instance, is boobo-20.
3. tags: the search parameter, words separated by “+” or spaces.

Examples

• http://boo-box.com/api/format:xml/aff:amazonid/uid:boobo-20/tags:mombojo%20mp3
• http://boo-box.com/api/format:xml/aff:mercadolivreid/uid:foobar/tags:carandiru
• http://boo-box.com/api/format:xml/aff:ebayid/uid:1042/tags:ubuntu%20book

boo-box next steps:

1. The capability of bring more information abou the products, with only one extra parameter.
2. Data in JSON format and not only in XML. (done: JSON in our API)

If you have any doubt, send an e-mail to help@boo-box.com, we will be delighted to help a friend developer =)