apac

apac (Amazon Product Advertising Client) will allow you to access the Amazon Product Advertising API. Learn more about the API at https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/advertising/api/detail/main.html.

Install using npm:

npm install apac@latest

If you try to install without "@latest", it will try to install the most recent stable version, but there is no stable version yet. So for now you must specify latest.

Here is a quick start to help you get node, npm and node-apac installed and running: www.synchrosinteractive.com/blog/1-software/39-node-apac-quick-start

Here's a quick example:

var sys = require('sys'),
    OperationHelper = require('apac').OperationHelper;

var opHelper = new OperationHelper({
    awsId:     '[YOUR AWS ID HERE]',
    awsSecret: '[YOUR AWS SECRET HERE]',
    assocId:   '[YOUR ASSOCIATE TAG HERE]',
});

opHelper.execute('ItemSearch', {
    'SearchIndex': 'Books',
    'Keywords': 'harry potter',
    'ResponseGroup': 'ItemAttributes,Offers'
}, function(error, results) {
    if (error) { sys.print('Error: ' + error + "\n") }
    sys.print("Results:\n" + sys.inspect(results) + "\n");
});

Results are returned as a JSON object (XML results parsed using xml2js -- thanks pierrel).

The library is pretty slim. It is also very new and may be unstable. That said, I'm using it without any problems.

Changelog

0.0.2

• Added parsing of XML results using xml2js. Thanks pierrel.