Comix Influx Blog: Amazon Web Services Updated

From the excellent work that Pikayev’s done on translating Les formidables aventures de Lapinot: Vacances de printemps, Gus 1: Nathalie and Le Long Voyage de Léna, I just realised that Amazon must have changed the format they send data back over their web-services.

For example, whereas I had expected to pick up the cover:

I ended up with one of the sample pages:

It looks like Amazon had added a bunch more detail into the responses they send from their web-service, which we use to get the cover images. In particular, they’ve added two sample pages from the book – so in addition to the one that was showing up erroneously, Le Long Voyage de Léna also has

The reason that the wrong image was being picked up has been fixed with a minor update to the code, but it’d be nice to make more of the extra images at our disposal. I’ll hopefully get round to it soon.