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copied!<p>Got this to work based on code sample at <a href="http://jjinux.blogspot.com/2009/06/python-amazon-product-advertising-api.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://jjinux.blogspot.com/2009/06/python-amazon-product-advertising-api.html</a> Here is a minor improved version that lets you merge a dict of call specific params with the basic params before making the call. </p> <pre><code>keyFile = open('accesskey.secret', 'r') # I put my secret key file in .gitignore so that it doesn't show up publicly AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = keyFile.read() keyFile.close() def amz_call(self, call_params): AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = '<your-key>' AWS_ASSOCIATE_TAG = '<your-tag>' import time import urllib from boto.connection import AWSQueryConnection aws_conn = AWSQueryConnection( aws_access_key_id=AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, aws_secret_access_key=Amz.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, is_secure=False, host='ecs.amazonaws.com') aws_conn.SignatureVersion = '2' base_params = dict( Service='AWSECommerceService', Version='2008-08-19', SignatureVersion=aws_conn.SignatureVersion, AWSAccessKeyId=AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AssociateTag=AWS_ASSOCIATE_TAG, Timestamp=time.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S", time.gmtime())) params = dict(base_params, **call_params) verb = 'GET' path = '/onca/xml' qs, signature = aws_conn.get_signature(params, verb, path) qs = path + '?' + qs + '&Signature=' + urllib.quote(signature) print "verb:", verb, "qs:", qs return aws_conn._mexe(verb, qs, None, headers={}) </code></pre> <p>Sample usage:</p> <pre><code>result = self.amz_call({'Operation' : 'ItemSearch' , 'Keywords' : searchString , 'SearchIndex' : 'Books' , 'ResponseGroup' : 'Small' }) if result.status == 200: responseBodyText = result.read() # do whatever ... </code></pre>

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