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I've been trying to do this same thing for quite some time.  I can tell 
with some certainty that there is NO search-inside-the-book info within 
the API response.

--Charles Ledvina

Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> Anyoen more familiar with Amazon Web Services than me (AWS) and know 
> the answer to this?
>
> Can I tell from my AWS API response if search inside the book is 
> available? Is that information anywhere?
>
> Right now, I'm calculating what the search inside the book URL _would_ 
> be from the ASIN (which I get from the AWS), and then making a request 
> to that url---and then screen-scraping for the phrase "temporarily 
> unavailable" which is what they say if search inside the book doesn't 
> exist. Sadly, they don't return 404 status in this case, they return 
> 200 status with that message.
>
> But this is messy. And slows down my app, since I need to make a 
> second http request to amazon.
> Anyone know if there's any way to predict it from the AWS response?
>
> The AWS documentation and my actual in practice AWS response examples 
> are both overwhelming and confusing me. :)
>
> Jonathan