Bottlenose is a thin Python wrapper over the Amazon Product Advertising API. There is practically no overhead. Before you get started, make sure you have both Amazon Product Advertising and AWS accounts (yes, they are separate--confusing, I know).
- 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
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). Just plug in appropriate request parameters for the operation you'd like to call, and you're good to go::
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.
Copyright © 2011 Dan Loewenherz
See LICENSE for details.