Maybe I’m just out here on the cutting edge and no one else in the universe would find this useful, but I’m always amazed that Amazon doesn’t have RSS/Atom feeds for wishlists. I could subscribe to all of my relatives/friends wish lists in Google Reader and give Amazon yet another opportunity to suck up my hard earned cash.
But, alas, no. I gave up on Amazon Wish Lists awhile ago and was using TheThingsIWant.Com which pretty much sucked except that it had RSS feeds. But now it appears to be down for the count (offline the past few days).
Companies seem to omit services like this because the knock is that the average user has no idea what RSS is, much less why they’d want to use it. Which is true enough, I guess, but there are plenty of Amazon-related sites geared to non-technical users that at the moment are forced to scrap wish list information from Amazon. Why hamper the development of such services by not offering native RSS/Atom feeds?
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Amazon Wish Lists do have RSS feeds. The silly thing is that you can’t see it when you are logged in on your own list. If you have a public list, log out and then go to it either by URL or through Wish List search. Look in the upper right hand corner of the list. RSS!
I don’t see the RSS logo after logging out…
I logged out and I don’t see an RSS option.
I just stared using Wish Radar.
It will import Amazon Wish Lists, has RSS (for items below target price), and will notify when a target price is hit.
I am looking for some other stuff too
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