A Python hook into the Amazon.com Product Advertising API
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Description
Bottlenose is a thin Python wrapper over the Amazon Product Advertising API. There is practically no overhead to get started.
Features
Compatible with Python versions 2.4 and up
Support for CA, CN, DE, ES, FR, IT, JP, UK, and US Amazon endpoints
No requirements, except simplejson for Python pre-2.6
Usage
Creation:
>>> import bottlenose
>>> amazon = bottlenose.Amazon(AMAZON_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AMAZON_SECRET_KEY, AMAZON_ASSOC_TAG)
>>> response = amazon.ItemLookup(ItemId="0596520999", ResponseGroup="Images",
SearchIndex="Books", IdType="ISBN",
Style="http://xml2json-xslt.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/xml2json.xslt")
{"ItemLookupResponse":{"OperationRequest":{"HTTPHeaders":{"Header":null},"Re...
Notice that I do not like XML. Despite this, you are free to omit the Style parameter when making your calls to Amazon. I like using an amazing XSLT stylesheet written by Doeke Zanstra that does its best to convert XML to JSON. As far as I can tell, it does a pretty amazing job with Amazon’s responses. I’ve included the stylesheet in this project if you’d like to host it yourself.
Want to grab some other data? No problem! Bottlenose to the rescue:
>>> response = amazon.ItemSearch(Keywords="Kindle 3G") <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><HelpResponse xmlns="http://webserv...
Any valid API call from the following is supported (in addition to any others that may be added in the future):
BrowseNodeLookup CartAdd CartClear CartCreate CartGet CartModify ItemLookup ItemSearch SellerListingLookup SellerListingSearch SellerLookup SimilarityLookup
For more information about these calls, please consult the [Product Advertising API Developer Guide](http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSECommerceService/latest/DG/index.html).
License
Copyright © 2011 Dan Loewenherz
See LICENSE for details.
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