urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable

[Karlheinzniebuhr]

I'm getting this error on my gcloud app which runs python 2.7.16
Same error occurs on python 3.7.1 when executing the command line demo of the documentation

>>> amazon.lookup(ItemId='B07MFZY2F2') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\amazon\api.py", line 174, in lookup response = self.api.ItemLookup(ResponseGroup=ResponseGroup, **kwargs) File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\bottlenose\api.py", line 274, in __call__ {'api_url': api_url, 'cache_url': cache_url}) File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\bottlenose\api.py", line 235, in _call_api return urllib2.urlopen(api_request, timeout=self.Timeout) File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py", line 154, in urlopen return opener.open(url, data, timeout) File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py", line 435, in open response = meth(req, response) File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py", line 548, in http_response 'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs) File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py", line 473, in error return self._call_chain(*args) File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py", line 407, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py", line 556, in http_error_default raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp) urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable

[prafulbagai708]

Same Error.
Were you able to fix this?

[Karlheinzniebuhr]

Nope :(

[prafulbagai708]

@Karlheinzniebuhr - I found the issue. You need to pass region too. See the code snippet below.

amazon = AmazonAPI(AMAZON_ACCESS_KEY, AMAZON_SECRET_KEY, AMAZON_ASSOC_TAG, region='IN')

By default, it's US. If your affiliateId belongs to some other region, pass into it.

Check this file.

[ankurpandeyvns]

@Karlheinzniebuhr - I found the issue. You need to pass region too. See the code snippet below.

amazon = AmazonAPI(AMAZON_ACCESS_KEY, AMAZON_SECRET_KEY, AMAZON_ASSOC_TAG, region='IN')

By default, it's US. If your affiliateId belongs to some other region, pass into it.

Check this file.

Still raises the same exception.

[Karlheinzniebuhr]

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@Karlheinzniebuhr - I found the issue. You need to pass region too. See the code snippet below.
amazon = AmazonAPI(AMAZON_ACCESS_KEY, AMAZON_SECRET_KEY, AMAZON_ASSOC_TAG, region='IN')
By default, it's US. If your affiliateId belongs to some other region, pass into it.
Check this file.

Still raises the same exception.

Thanks @ankurpandeyvns , my code just magically started working again, the only thing I did was to get a new API key and wait a few days.