Amazon Historical Pricing
The Amazon Historical Pricing web service gives developers programmatic access to over three years of actual sales data for books, music, videos, and DVDs (as sold by third-party sellers on Amazon.com). Sellers can use Amazon Historical Pricing to make informed decisions on pricing and purchasing.
Service Highlights
- Provides access to three years of actual sales history from books, music, videos, and DVDs sold on Amazon.com
- Returns the average, minimum, maximum, and median price for items with a sales history so users can examine pricing trends
- Provides an easy way of determining if a specific item's historical pricing data is available
- Returns pricing information for up to ten items per request
Resources
Pricing
- $249 per month for up to 60,000 requests per month.
(Amazon Historical Pricing is sold by Amazon Web Services, LLC.)
Detailed Description
The Amazon Historical Pricing web service gives developers programmatic access to over three years of actual sales data for books, music, videos, and DVDs (as sold by third-party sellers on Amazon.com). Data is available from 2002 until present and includes the average, minimum, maximum, and median prices for the specified items over the given date range(s). Sellers can use the information provided by Amazon Historical Pricing to guide pricing and purchasing decisions, and improve their businesses.
User Testimonial
"Amazon Historical Pricing is a very powerful tool. Using this data, I can make better decisions that will improve my bottom line."
- Elephant Books
Operation Overview
DateFinder
The DateFinder operation provides an easy way of determining if a specific item's historical pricing data is available. Given an item ID and year, the web service returns all available weeks, months and quarters for which historical pricing data is available.
ItemPriceLookup
The ItemPriceLookup is the primary operation sellers will use to retrieve historical pricing data.
- Specify the desired item ID(s) and date range(s) to receive historical pricing data. In any request, sellers may request up to ten item IDs over a given date range (week, month or quarter), or up to ten date ranges for a given item ID.
- For each item, ItemPriceLookup returns the minimum, maximum, median, and average price over the given date range, as well as the current Amazon.com sales rank and retail price.
- If the requested item varies widely in price and has high unit sales, the service returns a sales distribution by price range, along with additional statistics.
Ways to Generate Value with Amazon Historical Pricing
The following are some straightforward and valuable ways we anticipate sellers using Amazon Historical Pricing.
- Optimize selling prices and subsequent gross margins by augmenting existing software applications with information from Amazon Historical Pricing.
- Review historical pricing information over time to ascertain seasonality.
- Access historical pricing information on books currently unlisted and out-of-print to determine an optimal selling price. This pricing information is otherwise unavailable.
We continue to be amazed by our developers' creativity and expect developers will find other imaginative ways to use Amazon Historical Pricing.
Intended Usage and Restrictions
- You may not resell or redistribute the content in any way without Amazon.com's written approval. See the Amazon Web Services Customer Agreement for more details and contact information.
- You may make up to 1 request per second for up to 60,000 requests per month to the Amazon Historical Pricing web service.
- You may not use the data in any way that allows a third party to (1) Derive site-wide statistics from any web site owned or operated by Amazon.com or its Affiliates; (2) or derive gross merchandise sales or other statistics related to performance (financial or otherwise).
- You may store the data for up to seven (7) days.
- Please see the Amazon Web Services Customer Agreement for more details.
- If you choose to sign up for this service, you will be asked to agree to the Amazon Historical Pricing Terms.
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