Amazon API library for Python? [closed]

Answer 1

I'm using Bottlenose, Dan Loewenherz's "super awesome Python wrapper for the Amazon Product Advertising API". It doesn't parse the XML, so I'm using lxml.objectify:

ACCESS_KEY_ID = "..."
SECRET_KEY = "..."
ASSOC_TAG = "..."

import bottlenose
amazon = bottlenose.Amazon(ACCESS_KEY_ID, SECRET_KEY, ASSOC_TAG)
response=amazon.ItemLookup(ItemId="B0018AFK38", ResponseGroup="OfferSummary")

from lxml import objectify
root = objectify.fromstring(response)
root.Items.Item.OfferSummary.LowestNewPrice.FormattedPrice

Answer 2

PyAWS is no longer hosted on SourceForge. The latest version (0.3.0) is available via the authors website.

Make sure you also grab the patch for Amazons latest API changes, mentioned in the comments.

Answer 3

The only other library I'm aware of is pyAmazon, which is the predecessor of pyaws. If you're familiar with the Amazon API (or are willing to become so), you could probably put together something yourself with ZSI.

Answer 4

How about boto? Anyone have any experience with it? I just started looking for a Python package for Amazon and boto looks up to date (v1.8c release 28-Jun-2009), active and complete (has a long list of supported interfaces).

Answer 5

pyaws seems to be the best one out there. I used it here (my source code) It worked fine for me.

Answer 6

There is now another alternative: python-amazon-product-api. It supports API version 2009-11-01 2010-12-01.