Amazon product Api ~ Relationship between SearchIndex and ProductGroup?

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16636657

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I am currently using the amazon advertising api and I understand how you can specify the SearchIndex to tailor the results by index/department. (SearchIndex = All, Books, Toys, Kitchen, etc)

In the search results, they list the ProductGroup which per the api docs is:

ProductGroup Product - category; similar to search index

I would like to be able to take the product group of a search result and show more results from that given group/index/department. In other words, given a result's ProductGroup, I want to search again with a more specific SearchIndex based on the ProductGroup. (My initial search uses "All" index).

I can not simply throw one of the result's ProductGroup value and use it as the index because they do not match up 100%. For example, an item may have a product group of "Toy" or "Book" which is not the name of a SearchIndex (but 'Toys' and 'Books' are valid names).

Is there a way to come up with a more specific SearchIndex value given the ProductGroup? I am aware of the list of all SearchIndex values listed by locale.

One solution I am considering is taking all of the valid SearchIndex values listed in that link and mapping ProductGroups to them myself (It seems pretty straight-forward that a group value of 'Toy' indicates precense in a search index of 'Toys', etc), but I wanted to see if anyone more familiar with the API has a real solution for this.

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For more targeted results, you can use Browse Node IDs in a BrowseNodeLookup request.

According to the documentation you can use BrowseNodeLookup iteratively to navigate through the browse node hierarchy to reach the node that most appropriately suits your search.

Then you can use the browse node ID in an ItemSearch request.

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