Batch Requests

[ghost]

Is there a way to do a search for multiple items in a single request (batch requests)?. This is very important because of amazon's one second rule. It does look like some one has implemented it elsewhere as I found this forum post.

[yoavaviram]

Hi,

I added support for some lookup batch requests:

 >>> from amazon.api import AmazonAPI
 >>> amazon = AmazonAPI(AMAZON_ACCESS_KEY, AMAZON_SECRET_KEY,

AMAZON_ASSOC_TAG)
>>> products =
amazon.lookup(ItemId="B0051QVESA,B005DOK8NW,B005890G8Y,B0051VVOB2,B005890G8O")
>>> len(products)
5
>>> products[0].asin
'B0051QVESA'

Is this what you where looking for?

Yoav.

On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 8:12 AM, objektek <
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wrote:

Is there a way to do a search for multiple items in a single request
(batch requests).
This is very important because of amazon's one second rule. It does look
like some one has implemented it elsewhere as I found this forum post.

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[ghost]

Yoav, what I meant was searching multiple items (upto maybe 10 at a time), ie. using multiple keywords, like so...
amazon.search(Keywords="keyword1, keyword2, keyword3, keyword4, ...")

[yoavaviram]

I don't think that using multiple keywords in such a way is supported. Can
you find any examples of someone using bulk search requests?

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 8:28 PM, objektek <
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wrote:

Yoav, what I meant was searching multiple items (upto maybe 10 at a time),
ie. using multiple keywords, like so...
amazon.search(Keywords="keyword1, keyword2, keyword3, keyword4, ...")

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[ghost]

I haven't seen it used elsewhere but with a slight mod bottlenose I could only get it to work with two keywords at a time. I guess the only way to do it is to do a loop with two keywords at a time.

def search_amazon(keywords):

    sk = {}

    for idx, val in enumerate(keywords):
        if idx < 3:
            keyName = "ItemSearch."+str(idx+1)+".Keywords"
            sk[keyName] = val

    import bottlenose
    amazon = bottlenose.Amazon(AMAZON_ACCESS_KEY, AMAZON_SECRET_KEY, AMAZON_ASSOC_TAG)
    products = amazon.ItemSearch(SearchIndex='MP3Downloads', searchKeywords=sk)

    from lxml import objectify, etree

    return objectify.fromstring(products)

In bottlenose def call(self, **kwargs), i did:

        searchKeywords = kwargs['searchKeywords']
        for key in searchKeywords.keys():
            kwargs[key] = searchKeywords[key]

[yoavaviram]

If all we get from this change is running
two search queries in parallel, than i don't think it is worth implementing
at this point.

Thanks!

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 5:58 AM, objektek <
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wrote:

I haven't made any other changes. I just the following piece to bottlenose
api.py line79 and that produces an XML response with search results for two
keywords but not more:

                    searchKeywords = kwargs['searchKeywords']
                    for key in searchKeywords.keys():
                            kwargs[key] = searchKeywords[key]

After adding the above code to bottlenose, do a search with a list of two
keywords for the searchKeywords parameter, like so:

 >>> import bottlenose
 >>> amazon = bottlenose.Amazon(AMAZON_ACCESS_KEY_ID,

AMAZON_SECRET_KEY, AMAZON_ASSOC_TAG)
>>> response = amazon.ItemSearch(searchKeywords=["Kindle
3G","Pizza"], SearchIndex="All")

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