Amazon has a terrifically useful search functionality where you specify the 'node' id and 'field-date' in order to retrieve the new releases of that particular day. You can even specify what artist you want to search for!
However, so far I have been unable to use this specific function in the API through the Ruby amazon_product wrapper. When I call the method the web services api disregards the data parameter and simply returns me all albums by that particular artist. My expectation is that amazon has turned off the 'date' parameter entirely for the product api; as it is nowhere to be found in the Product Advertising API Developer guide. Yet, does anyone know how to access this functionality or know of other ways to reach the same end result with an entirely different method?
req = AmazonProduct["us"]
req.configure do |c|
c.key = 'key'
c.secret = 'secretkey'
c.tag = 'tag'
end
res = req.search('Music', :keywords => "sleigh+bells", :date => 20120221)