Will Vacuum support the Product Advertising API 5.0?

[kingpalethe]

From what I can tell, Vacuum will cease to function once Amazon disables API 4.0, which seems to be scheduled for the end of October, 2019.

https://webservices.amazon.com/paapi5/documentation/?ref_=pe_27042120_428145790

Any plans to update Vacuum to use new the API?

[skatkov]

Oh, damn and they don't even provide official ruby sdk. That's an 'amazing' news and not that much time to update...

I will surely be working on migrating to version 5. :-/

[hakanensari]

I wasn’t even aware they launched a new API version. I’ll check this out.

[skatkov]

Here is a documentation for new api.
https://webservices.amazon.com/paapi5/documentation/

[skatkov]

@hakanensari I'd be happy to help you out with this migration. I just started to look into this, but it seems like your ahead of me on this.

If you already have a plan for migration - would be great to talk/discuss how we can proceed.

[hakanensari]

@skatkov To be honest, I don't have a particular plan other than finding some spare time in the coming weeks and rewriting the library. If you want to have a go at this, please do go ahead, and I can try to be of help over a pull request.

[hakanensari]

@kingpalethe Could you point me to any online post announcing when the older version will be disabled?

[skatkov]

I didn't found any announcements.

But seems like associate support confirms that change is underway.

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=309730&tstart=0

[fizgig]

This is what my client received, he's using Vacuum so I'm looking for a solution as well.

Step 1: You will have to update your AWS account to a Product Advertising API account, if you have not done it already. If you have already done this, you can go to Step 2.
Step 2: Follow a detailed guide here to upgrade each of your application/sites to PA API 5.0. You will still be able to access PA API 4.0 until Oct 31, 2019.

[skatkov]

Just an update on my side.

I took a stab at rewriting this library for my own project. It's hard to say, if this is a same vacuum/jeff library -- it was really hard to keep similar API, since v5 is a complete rewrite.

My version is not full featured:

• I only use US marketplace
• I only need get_items/ get_variations

I'll try to polish things and publish a PR for discussion within couple of days. Hopefully this would be a good starting point.

[skatkov]

This is a slide from Amazon Associate even in Munich (hence the German), but it seems that PA-API v4 deprecation date is postponed to 14th January 2020.

[careybaird]

Hey @skatkov , on that photo it says the deadline is now 14th January 2019 (not 2020) - is that a mistake?

Is there any other info about the deadline being postponed?

[skatkov]

Oh, probably mistake :) I don't have any 'official info' on this, but I have another similar rumor from a long term partner of Amazon that builds on top of Product Advertising API.

[careybaird]

I also saw it on the AWS forums, from the same source (munich event), so hopefully this is true!

[hakanensari]

@skatkov thanks for making this happen 🎉

[turner-btp]

@hakanensari @skatkov is anything required for 5.0 support other than updating the gem to version 3.0?

[skatkov]

@hakanensari likewise! It was a pleasure working with you on this.

@turner-btp unfortunately, PA-API v5 is not compatible with previous version, so is this gem.

New vacuum gem has a spirit/design that closely resembles previous version. But it's completely incompatible, we don't even have a migration path that we would recommend.