Add an Amazon Wishlist to your Blog or Site

Updated: October 11, 2021

I built a simple tool that lets you create an amazon wishlist blog badge. It generates compliant HTML via some javascript that you can insert into your blog or website template, and style with CSS.

Update, no longer working

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Add an Amazon Wishlist to your Blog or Site was first published on November 23, 2005.

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Comments

This is great! You should expand this to do metawishlist.com wishlists as well. That would be grand.

by Joe Lencioni on 11/23/2005 at 3:48:50 PM UTC

Great little tool, beats the heck out of the 5x5 wish list badge i am used to. :)

by dan on 11/23/2005 at 4:13:54 PM UTC

How to Install this? Where I can get this script?

I use Wordpress

Thanks

by Jauhari on 11/23/2005 at 10:08:58 PM UTC

Jauhari, You will just need to take the generated HTML code and paste it into your blog template. I don't use wordpress so I can't give you specific instructions.

by Pete Freitag on 11/24/2005 at 1:05:21 PM UTC

Pete,

It is not working for me. When you click on the link on my site it takes the user to http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/home/home.html/104-1022545-8644707

when the actual url is http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/registry.html/104-0785997-5466304?%5Fencoding=UTF8&type=wishlist&id=3OXVEP176FZIN

by Mark on 12/04/2005 at 8:47:29 PM UTC

Hey Mark, thanks I had a bug in that url it generated for the wishlist. Go and generate the code again.

-pete

by Pete Freitag on 12/05/2005 at 9:22:51 AM UTC

Thanks Pete, that worked.

by Evan on 12/05/2005 at 11:01:54 PM UTC

This is very cool.

However, it does not seem to recognize items that were recently purchased. My wishlist on Amazon has items that were purcahsed, yet they still show up the badge.

by Scott Stroz on 12/13/2005 at 4:44:18 PM UTC

Hey this is awesome, and it worked great until I added new items to my wishlist. Now the images don't show up, just the links to you and to the wishlist url on amazon. Any idea why this is?

Thanks!

by paige on 01/24/2006 at 9:17:17 PM UTC

I can't seem to get it working, does the script still work or am I doing something wrong?

I punch in my wishlist ID but the code generated gives a blank page.

by Parm on 04/26/2007 at 8:07:18 AM UTC

Since this also stopped working for me and having become tired with amazon wishlists I have since come across http://www.nomorenotebooks.com which lets you create wishlists from any website, something I have been looking for ages. Can there be something similar made for this?

by simplekid on 05/08/2008 at 12:13:48 PM UTC