Amazon API Help

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I'm not sure if this is in the right location, so sorry if it isn't.

I recently asked the question: "How can I keep my Amazon Review websites updated with the correct prices automatically?"

Someone answered by giving me a link to Amazon API.

I've checked it out and am completely bewildered. Programming / Coding is certainly not my forte. I think I understand that I'm given a special access key or something to call the API that should be used in some sort of code?

What I'm really asking for is some help constructing the code for an automatically updating price of a product.

Could someone please help me out here?

Cheers,

A confuzzled newbie.
#programming #amazon #api
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  • Yes I know.

    But how do I use this to update the prices on my website?
  • Best bet is to hire a programmer as most do not like to work for free. Giving tips is one thing, detailed explanations and custom code is another. It shouldn't cost much more than $50 to pull a price for an item that has a supplied ID.
  • I'm assuming the code is fairly simple just to pull a price?

    I also assume that the code doesn't change except for the URL of the product or the product ID or whatever?

    Maybe I'm wrong, but that's what I thought it would be like. I don't see why they'd make it more complicated than that. I'm just looking for the baseline code which I can then edit. (It's probably Javascript?)
  • Amazon works via signatures requests, thats a pretty complicated process to prevent malicious usage. But there are php scripts to simplify the job, I think I made my own about year ago. But before sharing it, I'd like to know what is your usage more precisely?
  • You should try googling associate o matic, a full php web shop driven from amazon using their api, plus they have a Wordpress plugin, if you use Wordpress.
  • Like James says there a couple of plugins that do this. Two things to bear in mind: Sometimes the price isn't available via the API and be careful if you're thinking of developing something like a price comparison engine. ASAIK it's against the Amazon TOS.

    The easiest way to get product prices on your site would be to use the product widgets that you can generate in Amazon Associates. They don't use usually convert as well as something more contextual like a text link within a page but it might be worth trying.
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    Amazon API Help

    I'm not sure if this is in the right location, so sorry if it isn't. I recently asked the question: "How can I keep my Amazon Review websites updated with the correct prices automatically?"