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Setup Amazon Affiliate API with PHP - Product Advertising API 5.0 (2020)

If you want to get started using Amazon's Associates Affiliate API, known as the Product Advertising API 5.0, then this tutorial will walk you through getting your API keys, setting up a PHP script to get the relevant data you need and general understanding of how you can modify the code to suit your own situation.

Amazon Affiliate API

 

This tutorial is going to show you how to connect to Amazon's Affiliate API (Product Advertising API) using PHP to obtain product data.

Table Of Contents

  1. Introduction to the Amazon Affiliate API
  2. How to find an Amazon Item's ASIN
  3. How to get Amazon Product Advertising API Keys
  4. Amazon Affiliate API PHP Tutorial

Introduction to the Amazon Affiliate API

Connecting to Amazon's API is a very powerful way display up-to-date data on various products your customers might be interested in. Amazon Affiliate Sites are some of the most profitable websites on the internet, far surpassing Google Adsense sites.

Amazon's Affiliate API is actually called the Product Advertising API, after being renamed from Amazon Associates Web Service. Using this API, we can lookup specific products on Amazon and obtain their information, such as live price, images, description and seller details.

We'll be using Amazon's Product Advertising API(PA-API) 5.0 to get the latest data. The old Amazon API 4.0 is no longer accessible and will be turning off on March 20th, so best to upgrade as soon as possible. If you've been using 4.0 and want to now use 5.0, check out this migration guide.

This tutorial is going to show you, in the most simplest terms, how to lookup a product. We'll be using PHP's fopen to access the API and extracting the returned data into an array for us to use.

ItemLookup in Product Advertising API 5.0

The PA-API 5.0 offers new ways to lookup data on Amazon products. We still need to use certain operators, but there are now more options available for us. In 5.0 we now use a "payload" which contains a list of all resources we want to get of a product. Currently available are:

Operation Description
BrowseNodes Use Amazon BrowseNodes to get sales ranking etc
Item -> GetVariations Get variations of the same product; different size, color etc
Item-> Getitems Lookup a specific item by amazon ID (ASIN) or ISBN.
Item -> SearchItems Search for different items on the Amazon marketplace

For the purposes of this guide, we'll be using the GetItems operation to get a specific item's details from the marketplace.

How To Find an Amazon Items ASIN

Since we'll be using GetItems, we need to use either the item's amazon ASIN or ISBN (if it's a book) to lookup the item we are trying to find. You can obtain this information by looking up any item on amazon.com and searching for it on the item page. The ASIN is also found in the URL:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01IG0E1F0/ref=s9u_nwrsa_gw_i1?

The bolded part is the Amazon ASIN.

How to get Amazon Product Advertising API Keys

We have our item details, we know what operation we'll be using and we know the language we will be coding in (PHP!).

The last piece of the puzzle is to get our developer access keys. If you've ever used an API, you'll be familiar with this process.

Product Advertising API sign up is available only to associates who have referred qualified sales and have been accepted into the program.

Unfortnuately, you need to have earned at least some money using your Amazon Associates account before you can access the API.

Just head over to Amazon's Product Adversting API page and sign up to access it. You can use your Amazon account to do this quickly. Next, you'll need to register for a secret key and an access key. This can be done by going to the Manage Your Account section and clicking on the security credentials area.

Amazon Developer Keys Setup

Amazon Affiliate API PHP Tutorial

The next step is to build our PHP class to use the Amazon PA-API 5.0. Luckily, you can use Amazon's Scratchpad to test the Amazon API and even get useful code snippets that can get your started. These code snippets handled all the important parts of signing requests, updating payloads and other information that if you're in a rush means you don't need to spend hours to get it working.

We'll be using the PHP Code Snippet and modifying it slightly to get us the following product information:

  • Product Name
  • Product Image
  • Product Price
  • Product URL

First, let's analyse the Awsv4 class:

 

/* Copyright 2018 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved. */
/* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. */

class AwsV4 {

    private $accessKey = null;
    private $secretKey = null;
    private $path = null;
    private $regionName = null;
    private $serviceName = null;
    private $httpMethodName = null;
    private $queryParametes = array ();
    private $awsHeaders = array ();
    private $payload = "";
    private $host = "";
    private $partnerTag = "";
    private $itemID = "";

    private $HMACAlgorithm = "AWS4-HMAC-SHA256";
    private $aws4Request = "aws4_request";
    private $strSignedHeader = null;
    private $xAmzDate = null;
    private $currentDate = null;

    public $response = null;

    public function __construct($accessKey, $secretKey) {
        $this->accessKey = $accessKey; 
        $this->secretKey = $secretKey;
        $this->xAmzDate = $this->getTimeStamp ();
        $this->currentDate = $this->getDate ();
    }

    function setPath($path) {
        $this->path = $path;
    }

    function setServiceName($serviceName) {
        $this->serviceName = $serviceName;
    }

    function setRegionName($regionName) {
        $this->regionName = $regionName;
    }

    function setPayload() {
        $payload = "{"
        ." \"ItemIds\": ["
        ."  \"".$this->itemID."\""
        ." ],"
        ." \"Resources\": ["
        ."  \"Images.Primary.Small\","
        ."  \"Images.Primary.Medium\","
        ."  \"Images.Primary.Large\","
        ."  \"Images.Variants.Small\","
        ."  \"Images.Variants.Medium\","
        ."  \"Images.Variants.Large\","
        ."  \"ItemInfo.ByLineInfo\","
        ."  \"ItemInfo.ContentInfo\","
        ."  \"ItemInfo.ContentRating\","
        ."  \"ItemInfo.Classifications\","
        ."  \"ItemInfo.ExternalIds\","
        ."  \"ItemInfo.Features\","
        ."  \"ItemInfo.ManufactureInfo\","
        ."  \"ItemInfo.ProductInfo\","
        ."  \"ItemInfo.TechnicalInfo\","
        ."  \"ItemInfo.Title\","
        ."  \"ItemInfo.TradeInInfo\","
        ."  \"Offers.Listings.Price\""
        ." ],"
        ." \"PartnerTag\": \"".$this->partnerTag."\","
        ." \"PartnerType\": \"Associates\","
        ." \"Marketplace\": \"www.amazon.com\""
        ."}";
        $this->payload = $payload;
    }

    function setHost($host) {
        $this->host = $host;
    }

    function setPartnerTag($tag) {
        $this->partnerTag = $tag;
    }

    function setItemID($itemID) {
        $this->itemID = $itemID;
    }

    function setRequestMethod($method) {
        $this->httpMethodName = $method;
    }

    function addHeader($headerName, $headerValue) {
        $this->awsHeaders [$headerName] = $headerValue;
    }

    private function prepareCanonicalRequest() {
        $canonicalURL = "";
        $canonicalURL .= $this->httpMethodName . "\n";
        $canonicalURL .= $this->path . "\n" . "\n";
        $signedHeaders = '';
        foreach ( $this->awsHeaders as $key => $value ) {
            $signedHeaders .= $key . ";";
            $canonicalURL .= $key . ":" . $value . "\n";
        }
        $canonicalURL .= "\n";
        $this->strSignedHeader = substr ( $signedHeaders, 0, - 1 );
        $canonicalURL .= $this->strSignedHeader . "\n";
        $canonicalURL .= $this->generateHex ( $this->payload );
        return $canonicalURL;
    }

    private function prepareStringToSign($canonicalURL) {
        $stringToSign = '';
        $stringToSign .= $this->HMACAlgorithm . "\n";
        $stringToSign .= $this->xAmzDate . "\n";
        $stringToSign .= $this->currentDate . "/" . $this->regionName . "/" . $this->serviceName . "/" . $this->aws4Request . "\n";
        $stringToSign .= $this->generateHex ( $canonicalURL );
        return $stringToSign;
    }

    private function calculateSignature($stringToSign) {
        $signatureKey = $this->getSignatureKey ( $this->secretKey, $this->currentDate, $this->regionName, $this->serviceName );
        $signature = hash_hmac ( "sha256", $stringToSign, $signatureKey, true );
        $strHexSignature = strtolower ( bin2hex ( $signature ) );
        return $strHexSignature;
    }

    public function getHeaders() {
        $this->awsHeaders ['x-amz-date'] = $this->xAmzDate;
        ksort ( $this->awsHeaders );

        // Step 1: CREATE A CANONICAL REQUEST
        $canonicalURL = $this->prepareCanonicalRequest ();

        // Step 2: CREATE THE STRING TO SIGN
        $stringToSign = $this->prepareStringToSign ( $canonicalURL );

        // Step 3: CALCULATE THE SIGNATURE
        $signature = $this->calculateSignature ( $stringToSign );

        // Step 4: CALCULATE AUTHORIZATION HEADER
        if ($signature) {
            $this->awsHeaders ['Authorization'] = $this->buildAuthorizationString ( $signature );
            return $this->awsHeaders;
        }
    }

    private function buildAuthorizationString($strSignature) {
        return $this->HMACAlgorithm . " " . "Credential=" . $this->accessKey . "/" . $this->getDate () . "/" . $this->regionName . "/" . $this->serviceName . "/" . $this->aws4Request . "," . "SignedHeaders=" . $this->strSignedHeader . "," . "Signature=" . $strSignature;
    }

    private function generateHex($data) {
        return strtolower ( bin2hex ( hash ( "sha256", $data, true ) ) );
    }

    private function getSignatureKey($key, $date, $regionName, $serviceName) {
        $kSecret = "AWS4" . $key;
        $kDate = hash_hmac ( "sha256", $date, $kSecret, true );
        $kRegion = hash_hmac ( "sha256", $regionName, $kDate, true );
        $kService = hash_hmac ( "sha256", $serviceName, $kRegion, true );
        $kSigning = hash_hmac ( "sha256", $this->aws4Request, $kService, true );

        return $kSigning;
    }

    private function getTimeStamp() {
        return gmdate ( "Ymd\THis\Z" );
    }

    private function getDate() {
        return gmdate ( "Ymd" );
    }


    // Custom stuff

    public function getResponse()
    {

        $headers = $this->getHeaders ();
        $headerString = "";
        foreach ( $headers as $key => $value ) {
            $headerString .= $key . ': ' . $value . "\r\n";
        }
        $params = array (
                'http' => array (
                    'header' => $headerString,
                    'method' => 'POST',
                    'content' => $this->payload
                )
            );
        $stream = stream_context_create ( $params );

        $fp = @fopen ( 'https://'.$this->host.$this->path, 'rb', false, $stream );

        if (! $fp) {
            throw new Exception ( "Exception Occured" );
        }
        $response = @stream_get_contents ( $fp );
        if ($response === false) {
            throw new Exception ( "Exception Occured" );
        }

        $this->response = $response;

        return $this;
    }

    public function get_item_price() 
    {
        $itemResult = json_decode($this->response);
        $price = str_replace(".", "", $itemResult->ItemsResult->Items[0]->Offers->Listings[0]->Price->Amount);

        return $price;
    }

    public function get_item_data()
    {
        $itemResult = json_decode($this->response);
        var_dump(str_replace(".", "", $itemResult->ItemsResult->Items[0]->Offers->Listings[0]->Price->Amount));

        $i = $itemResult->ItemsResult->Items[0];

        $item = new STDclass;
        $item->detailedPageURL = $i->DetailPageURL;
        $item->link = "https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/".$this->itemID."/?tag=" . $this->partnerTag;
        $item->title = $i->ItemInfo->Title->DisplayValue;
        $item->smallImage = $i->Images->Primary->Small->URL;
        $item->mediumImage = $i->Images->Primary->Medium->URL;
        $item->largeImage = $i->Images->Primary->Large->URL;

        $item->price = $this->get_item_price();

        return $item;
    }
}
?>

 

This Awsv4.php class is a modified one generated by the Amazon Scratchpad; I've updated a few things to make it work for what I need it to do. You'll probably want to customize it yourself so you can modify the lookup code (Since GetItems actually allows you to lookup multiple items at once and we're just using the code to lookup a single item).

So how do we use the class? It's very easy to use:

        $awsv4 = new AwsV4 ($amazon_access_key, $amazon_secret_key);
        $awsv4->setRegionName("us-east-1");
        $awsv4->setServiceName("ProductAdvertisingAPI");

First you need to create a new object and add in your Amazon Access Key and Secret Key gotten from your API settings. Then you need to set your region for looking up items on Amazon and also the service you'll be using (ProductAdvertisingAPI).

I added a few custom methods to the class for storing data and streamlining it all:

        $awsv4->setPath ($uriPath);
		$awsv4->setHost($host);
		$awsv4->setItemID($amazon_id);
		$awsv4->setPartnerTag($partner_tag);
		$awsv4->setPayload ();

$uriPath is set to "/paapi5/getitems" which is the Getitems operator we want to use. $host is set to "webservices.amazon.com" since we are using this to lookup product data on Amazon.com. You'll want to change this to the region of your choice.

$amazon_id refers to the ASIN ID of the product you're looking up. $partner_tag is your Amazon Associates partner tag used to keep track of your referrals.

The setPayload method is just a custom function I made so I didn't have to paste the ugly resource list that I need everytime. You can customise this in the scratchpad and get a quick list of data you need very easily. This payload allows me to get the product information I need. You can view it in the class above:

function setPayload() {
        $payload = "{"
        ." \"ItemIds\": ["
        ."  \"".$this->itemID."\""
        ." ],"
        ." \"Resources\": ["
        ."  \"Images.Primary.Small\","
        ."  \"Images.Primary.Medium\","
        ."  \"Images.Primary.Large\","
        ."  \"Images.Variants.Small\","
        ."  \"Images.Variants.Medium\","
        ."  \"Images.Variants.Large\","
        ."  \"ItemInfo.ByLineInfo\","
        ."  \"ItemInfo.ContentInfo\","
        ."  \"ItemInfo.ContentRating\","
        ."  \"ItemInfo.Classifications\","
        ."  \"ItemInfo.ExternalIds\","
        ."  \"ItemInfo.Features\","
        ."  \"ItemInfo.ManufactureInfo\","
        ."  \"ItemInfo.ProductInfo\","
        ."  \"ItemInfo.TechnicalInfo\","
        ."  \"ItemInfo.Title\","
        ."  \"ItemInfo.TradeInInfo\","
        ."  \"Offers.Listings.Price\""
        ." ],"
        ." \"PartnerTag\": \"".$this->partnerTag."\","
        ." \"PartnerType\": \"Associates\","
        ." \"Marketplace\": \"www.amazon.com\""
        ."}";
        $this->payload = $payload;
    }

 

Next we need to set the headers that the PA-API 5.0 expects us to have. This is generated automatically for you by the scratchpad:

$awsv4->setRequestMethod ("POST");
        $awsv4->addHeader ('content-encoding', 'amz-1.0');
        $awsv4->addHeader ('content-type', 'application/json; charset=utf-8');
        $awsv4->addHeader ('host', $host);
        $awsv4->addHeader ('x-amz-target', 'com.amazon.paapi5.v1.ProductAdvertisingAPIv1.GetItems');

The x-amz-target needs to include the operator you're using, in this case its the GetItems operator.

And finally, we then call the methods needed to call the request and get the data we need. I created two custom functions in the class for this:

 

$product = $awsv4->getResponse()->get_item_data();

 

$product now contains all the data I need in Object form. Let's look at the code in a bit more detail:

GetResponse is mostly Amazon's Scratchpad code but with a few tweaks:

public function getResponse()
    {

        $headers = $this->getHeaders ();
        $headerString = "";
        foreach ( $headers as $key => $value ) {
            $headerString .= $key . ': ' . $value . "\r\n";
        }
        $params = array (
                'http' => array (
                    'header' => $headerString,
                    'method' => 'POST',
                    'content' => $this->payload
                )
            );
        $stream = stream_context_create ( $params );

        $fp = @fopen ( 'https://'.$this->host.$this->path, 'rb', false, $stream );

        if (! $fp) {
            throw new Exception ( "Exception Occured" );
        }
        $response = @stream_get_contents ( $fp );
        if ($response === false) {
            throw new Exception ( "Exception Occured" );
        }

        $this->response = $response;

        return $this;
    }

    public function get_item_price()
    {
        $itemResult = json_decode($this->response);
        $price = str_replace(".", "", $itemResult->ItemsResult->Items[0]->Offers->Listings[0]->Price->Amount);

        return $price;
    }

    public function get_item_data()
    {
        $itemResult = json_decode($this->response);
        var_dump(str_replace(".", "", $itemResult->ItemsResult->Items[0]->Offers->Listings[0]->Price->Amount));

        $i = $itemResult->ItemsResult->Items[0];

        $item = new STDclass;
        $item->detailedPageURL = $i->DetailPageURL;
        $item->link = "https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/".$this->itemID."/?tag=" . $this->partnerTag;
        $item->title = $i->ItemInfo->Title->DisplayValue;
        $item->smallImage = $i->Images->Primary->Small->URL;
        $item->mediumImage = $i->Images->Primary->Medium->URL;
        $item->largeImage = $i->Images->Primary->Large->URL;

        $item->price = $this->get_item_price();

        return $item;
    }

That's all there is to it really. I highly recommend looking at the Amazon Scratchpad for customising your own solution. Hopefully this tutorial will help you get started using the latest Amazon API. Using the class in full code:

        $host = "webservices.amazon.com";
        $uriPath = "/paapi5/getitems";
        

        $awsv4 = new AwsV4 ($amazon_access_key, $amazon_secret_key);
        $awsv4->setRegionName("us-east-1");
        $awsv4->setServiceName("ProductAdvertisingAPI");
        $awsv4->setPath ($uriPath);
        $awsv4->setHost($host);
        $awsv4->setItemID($amazon_id);
        $awsv4->setPartnerTag($partner_tag);
        $awsv4->setPayload ();

        $awsv4->setRequestMethod ("POST");
        $awsv4->addHeader ('content-encoding', 'amz-1.0');
        $awsv4->addHeader ('content-type', 'application/json; charset=utf-8');
        $awsv4->addHeader ('host', $host);
        $awsv4->addHeader ('x-amz-target', 'com.amazon.paapi5.v1.ProductAdvertisingAPIv1.GetItems');
        $product = $awsv4->getResponse()->get_item_data();

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Clive H's Avatar
28/09/2017

Clive H

I've used Amazon API before and this was a much simplier and faster way of doing things. Thanks for sharing! Now I have a question concerning how you are selecting your amazon products on the page. Do you have a db table with asins and are selecting 4 at random to be displayed? Or are you pulling say 4 from an amazon category and displaying them.

If it is the latter, could you explain how you are doing so. It would be good to pull 4 from a category in amazon say between 2 price ranges that have reviews and possibly a rating range (3.5-5). manually adding asins to a table means always having to check amazon for new products that come in. Automation as much as possbile is ideal. Your thoughts! Thanks

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Patchesoft's Avatar
29/09/2017

Patchesoft

@Clive H

Hi! I actually created my own sub-categories in my database filled with products/ASINs that I use a cron to run to grab the data and keep it up to date (because Amazon price changes). I make categories based on the type of page I want to display the products for. So if I'm making a PHP tutorial, I'll select my product category for PHP/Coding related products that I've found. It'll then select a random selection of products from that category and display them.

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Clive H's Avatar
29/09/2017

Clive H

I was playing around last night and manage to search categories for different keywords priced more than $10 and fetch all results on all 10 pages (max available). Store the title, asin and price in a database and use a cron to check pricing (once per hour) + add new items (one per day). Seems to be working well with throttling in place. Thanks for these helpful code snippets.

P.S The products/related posts + comments look a little messed up on mobile :)

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Patchesoft's Avatar
29/09/2017

Patchesoft

@Clive H Nice one!

Thanks for the tip of mobile issues; I'll have to work on them when I get some spare time!

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Shivanshu Srivastava's Avatar
03/11/2017

Shivanshu Srivastava

Hello, firs of all, thanks for sharing..
But when I am trying to execute as you told, a blank page is displayed... any clue ?

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Patchesoft's Avatar
06/11/2017

Patchesoft

@Shivanshu Srivastava You'll want to turn on error reporting to make sure you don't have any PHP errors popping up.

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salochana's Avatar
08/12/2017

salochana

Hi , i have used Api but it doesn't work i am getting errors
[Code] => InvalidClientTokenId
[Message] => The AWS Access Key Id you provided does not exist in our records.
I am using the correct credentials. can you please help me?

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Sahil Ahlawat's Avatar
23/01/2018

Sahil Ahlawat

I am implementing your tutorial and this is easy to start with but I can not find a way to fetch all products of a particular category.

Please help!

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joe's Avatar
10/02/2018

joe

The signature isn't correct, it should be

$amazon = new Amazon($affid, $access, $secret);

not

$amazon = new Amazon($affid, $secret, $access);

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Patchesoft's Avatar
10/02/2018

Patchesoft

@joe Thanks! I've updated the guide to fix this- good catch!

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Joe's Avatar
13/03/2018

Joe

I just can't get this to work. I'm not completely sure why. Where am I supposed to add the access keys etc?

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Patchesoft's Avatar
13/03/2018

Patchesoft

@Joe You add them when creating the Amazon object. Like so:

$amazon = new Amazon($affid, $access, $secret);

Replace $access and $secret with your keys.

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Adam's Avatar
12/07/2018

Adam

I had to change all instances of amazon.com to amazon.co.uk to get it to work. Otherwise it said my associate_id did not exist. This might be helpful for others.

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Wise.Gorilla's Avatar
19/09/2018

Wise.Gorilla

Thanks for the code, unfortunately it didn't work for me, i get that error

Notice: Trying to get property 'title' of non-object in C:\xampp\htdocs\test1\price.php on line 9

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Wise.Gorilla's Avatar
19/09/2018

Wise.Gorilla

It worked for me nicely now but unfortunately, it returns the price without decimal, so instead of returning the price as 29.90 it returns it as 2990, is there any solution for that issue, I will really appreciate that.

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Wise.Gorilla's Avatar
04/10/2018

Wise.Gorilla

It worked great, But could you please tell me how to lookup multiple ASINs in one request and then echo each ASIN price individually? that would be really appriciated

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Emanuel's Avatar
22/10/2018

Emanuel

@Adam Same here! Thx a lot Bro!

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gentleMan's Avatar
21/02/2019

gentleMan

@Wise.Gorilla

Please how did you solve this problem?

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gentleMan's Avatar
21/02/2019

gentleMan

i get this error

Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /storage/ssd1/643/8742643/public_html/test.php on line 8

please help me

line 8 below
echo $item->title;

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fdgsdfgsdf's Avatar
24/02/2019

fdgsdfgsdf

You are submitting requests too quickly. Please retry your requests at a slower rate

This is what i always get... In each one single and isolated query... What can i do?

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Arnaud's Avatar
17/03/2019

Arnaud

Hello,
I have the same problem : "You are submitting requests too quickly. Please retry your requests at a slower rate"
Do you have an idea?
Thx

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rvsx's Avatar
13/05/2019

rvsx

@Wise.Gorilla I'm getting the same error..Are you able to find a solution?

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Wise.Gorilla's Avatar
12/06/2019

Wise.Gorilla

@rvsx @gentleMan

Sorry for the later response, In case you still need help here is how to get it to work
1- Make sure that you called the class and echo the data like using this code in this form

$amazon = new AmazonAPI("test-21", "AKIAIQJIJHJHSQJIJIJSSNTA", "vpsjijistuIJIJIJUHUGHQWQGGDPQROL");
$item = $amazon->item_lookup("B00DQGBYDC")->get_item_data();

echo $item->title;
exit();

Note that the secret and access ket and associate id are just a sample and are not correct so you need to use your own access/scret key instead

B00DQGBYDC is the ASIN of a product from amazon.de that's why i replaced all "amazon.com" texts on the original snippet with "amazon.de" which was the main issue.

I spent sometime working and custom tweaking this code to use it on a WP plugin i'm working on so if you still have some questions about that code you can email me on islam.mohamed.3d@gmail.com since sometimes i dont notice the mentions on this post and i will try to answer it if i had enough time and was able too.

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Rashedk's Avatar
14/01/2020

Rashedk

I am getting this error

Fatal error: Uncaught ArgumentCountError: Too few arguments to function AmazonAPI::__construct(), 0 passed in F:\xampp\htdocs\amazon\index.php on line 151 and exactly 3 expected in F:\xampp\htdocs\amazon\index.php:32 Stack trace: #0 F:\xampp\htdocs\amazon\index.php(151): AmazonAPI->__construct() #1 {main} thrown in F:\xampp\htdocs\amazon\index.php on line 32

I was confused what will be Timestamp, though i used 2020-01-12\ 07:14:15\Z

I was create my object like this

$amazon = new AmazonAPI();
echo $amazon->get_item_data();
Then i getting above error

@Wise.Gorilla & @Patchesoft please help me how to solve this.

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Mads's Avatar
20/01/2020

Mads

This is super nice and simple. Thanks a lot for sharing it.

It works super well for amazon.com, but what if you also want to use it for other Amazon locations? (i.e. amazon.co.uk, amazon.de, etc.)

Thanks,
Mads

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vg's Avatar
28/05/2020

vg

thanks, please guide me to get the author name and books description i am not able to display them cant find the hierarchy to get to those

before api 5.0 it use to be like this :
$item->ItemAttributes->Author
and
$item->EditorialReviews->EditorialReview->Content

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OG's Avatar
06/12/2020

OG

Hi,
thanks for your guide, it really helped!

I got an issue. It works fine but when i am using a while loop to get all the ASINS automatically and get the price as return it works for the first 8, but after that I'm getting each time {Fatal error: Uncaught Exception: Exception Occured in AwsV4->getResponse() #1 {main} thrown[...]}. Someone knows that issue and maybe got a way to solve it?

Thanks again for your guide

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