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Johnny Tee
Johnny Tee

Reputation: 111

How do I interact with the Amazon Product Advertising API in my Rails app?

I'm building a Rails web app and was wondering what is the best way to get a list of products that Amazon would return based on a search term?

For example, if I sent amazon the term "iphone", I'd get a list of iPhones back from Amazon.

Upvotes: 11

Views: 4540

Answers (5)

Reed G. Law
Reed G. Law

Reputation: 3955

I second Ruby/AWS. It has support for ListSearch and ListLookup. Amazon-ecs has comparatively less support for the API.

Upvotes: 0

umassthrower
umassthrower

Reputation: 1397

So the Ruby/AWS library is the way to go. There is a pretty good tutorial here

Pablo, ruby-aaws worked nearly out of the box for me. I just had to setup a .amazonrc file with the configuration options like my amazon affiliate id and AWS public and secret keys.

Upvotes: 2

Pablo Fernandez
Pablo Fernandez

Reputation: 287870

Another pottential library to do this is amazon-product-advertising-api, but I cannot say anything else about it as I haven't tried it.

Upvotes: 0

Bill Turner
Bill Turner

Reputation: 3697

The Ruby/AWS library (gem: ruby-aaws) seems to do it. Not much in the way of examples, but with some code searches I'm sure you can turn up something.

Upvotes: 0

Carlos
Carlos

Reputation: 840

I've always used the amazon-ecs gem. Despite the name, it looks like it's still under active development (last updated August 27th, 2009).

http://github.com/jugend/amazon-ecs

Here is a blog post that might help you on your way:

http://www.pluitsolutions.com/projects/amazon-ecs

Upvotes: 5

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