---
id: "asin"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["ecommerce"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 100
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/asin"
---

# Amazon Standard Identification Number (ASIN) (`asin`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Ten-character code of uppercase letters and digits that Amazon and its partners assign to a product in the Amazon catalog. For a book with a 10-digit ISBN, the ASIN is that ISBN. Other products, including most Kindle editions, get a code assigned by Amazon.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: E-commerce (ecommerce)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^[0-9A-Z]{10}$
```

## Examples

- `B073HWQBJP` — Example of Wikidata property P5749
- `B016BEEBXU` — Example of Wikidata property P5749
- `0306406152` — Book: the ASIN is its ISBN-10
- `B073HWQBJ` (invalid example) — Nine characters

## Mappings

- autotype: `asin`
- bioregistry: `asin`
- schema_org: `asin`
- wikidata: `P5749`

## Supported by tools

- `autotype`

## Translations

- ru: Идентификатор товара Amazon (ASIN): Десятисимвольный код товара в каталоге Amazon; для книг совпадает с ISBN-10.

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Standard_Identification_Number>
- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5749>
- other: <https://github.com/congy/AutoType/blob/master/data_release/asin.txt>

## Quality

Score 100/100.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/asin.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/ecommerce/asin.yaml>