How can I use Amazon's API in PHP to search for books? [closed]

Answer 1

You want to be looking at their affiliate program, which now appears to be under "advertising". As I recall, it's free to sign up and it works on a referral commission basis. There is nothing specifically for books, you would need to lookup the category ID for books, then you can query on that. There API is pretty extensive and has specific "fields" for different types of product.

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/advertising/api/detail/main.html

I used the Amazon API for a Facebook app at my last job called Gift-O-Matic (terrible name), that included books from Amazon as a category. The Zend Amazon lib is a good start, but I found it too verbose and rolled my own.

Answer 2

The reason you weren't finding what you wanted with the AWS APIs is that AWS doesn't have anything to do with Amazon.com's shopping experience.

AWS is the cloud service layer that their website is built upon, which they have externalized so others can build upon it as well. As has been mentioned, you want the affiliate advertising stuff.

Answer 3

You could let Zend Framework do the work for you using Zend_Service_Amazon. From what I see it's fairly easy to use, and for simple queries the examples should be enough.