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A comment to an entry in Spidering Hacks says:

It is hopeless. This code never really worked and now Amazon has made it imposible to access their pages with Perl.

Oh really! It’s not so much that the poster thinks Perl can’t do it that he implies a computer program can’t do it.

So I wrote the program (in Perl) to do it.

I could probably use some Web Services API, but WWW::Mechanize turned out to be easier.