amazon_pa_api

AmazonPaApi

The purpose of this gem is to make use of Amazon Product Advertising API and pull easily Amazon products information.
Supported Amazon Product Advertising API operations.

• ItemLookup
• ItemSearch
• SimilarityLookup
• BrowseNodeLookup

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'amazon_pa_api'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install amazon_pa_api

Usage

You can use easily Amazon Product Advertising API calls, like this:

    AmazonPaApi::ItemLookup.access_key_id = "Your Amazon AWS access key id"
	AmazonPaApi::ItemLookup.secret_access_key = "Your Amazon AWS secret access key"
    AmazonPaApi::ItemLookup.associate_tag = "Your Amazon AWS associate tag"

    item_lookup = AmazonPaApi::ItemLookup.new('B0026IAWMU')
    puts item_lookup.get.body     # => XML

    # credentials are handled as class variables
    item_search = AmazonPaApi::ItemSearch.new('Attack on Titan', 'Books')
    puts item_search.get.body     # => XML

Or you can set Amazon credentials as hash, like this:

    item_search = AmazonPaApi::ItemSearch.new('Attack on Titan', 'Books')
    item_search.credentials = { access_key_id: "Your Amazon AWS access key id",
                                secret_access_key: "Your Amazon AWS secret key",
                                associate_tag: "Your Amazon associate tag"
                              } # required

    puts item_search.get.body     # => XML

    # credentials are handled as class variables
    item_lookup = AmazonPaApi::ItemLookup.new('B0026IAWMU')
    puts item_lookup.get.body     # => XML

If you want to choice Amazon ECommerce end point:

	# :ca, :de, :fr, :jp, :uk or :us.
    item_lookup = AmazonPaApi::ItemLookup.new('B00NLDYGDK', region: :uk)
    puts item_lookup.get.body     # => XML

    # or like this:
    item_lookup = AmazonPaApi::ItemLookup.new('B0026IAWMU')
    puts item_lookup.get.body     # => XML

	item_lookup.region = :uk
	item_lookup.item_id = 'B00NLDYGDK'
    puts item_lookup.get.body     # => XML
	

You can use Amazon Product Advertising API operation's request parameters as instance methods.

    item_lookup.id_type = 'EAN'
	item_lookup.seach_index = 'Books'
    item_lookup.condition = 'New'
    puts item_search.get.body     # => XML	

ItemLookup

    item_lookup = AmazonPaApi::ItemLookup.new('B0026IAWMU')
    puts item_lookup.get.body     # => XML

ItemSearch

    item_search = AmazonPaApi::ItemSearch.new('Attack on Titan', 'Books')
    puts item_search.get.body     # => XML

SimilarityLookup

    similarity_lookup = AmazonPaApi::SimilarityLookup.new('B0026IAWNU')
    puts similarity_lookup.get.body     # => XML

BrowseNodeLookup

    browse_node_lookup = AmazonPaApi::BrowseNodeLookup(71443051)
    puts browse_node_lookup.get.body     # => XML

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/sakura-computer/amazon_pa_api. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.