I'm building a Rails web app and was wondering what is the best way to get a list of products that Amazon would return based on a search term?
For example, if I sent amazon the term "iphone", I'd get a list of iphones back from Amazon.
Does anyone know if there's a gem or library for Rails out there that would fit this need?
The Ruby/AWS library (gem: ruby-aaws) seems to do it. Not much in the way of examples, but with some code searches I'm sure you can turn up something.
I've always used the amazon-ecs gem. Despite the name, it looks like it's still under active development (last updated August 27th, 2009).
http://github.com/jugend/amazon-ecs
Here is a blog post that might help you on your way:
Another pottential library to do this is amazon-product-advertising-api, but I cannot say anything else about it as I haven't tried it.
Hi Jim, I am using ruby-aaws Ruby/AWS Library 0.7.0 but it doesnt work for me. I am following an example from the book Ruby On Rails Bible but no success. The error that I get is..
Amazon::AWS::HTTPError: HTTP response code 403
from C:/Documents and Settings/kumar/My Documents/Aptana Studio Workspace/amazon_test/lib/amazon/aws.rb:169:in get_page'
from C:/Documents and Settings/kumar/My Documents/Aptana Studio Workspace/amazon_test/lib/amazon/aws/search.rb:305:in search'
from C:/Documents and Settings/kumar/My Documents/Aptana Studio Workspace/amazon_test/lib/amazon_interface.rb:18:in `find_by_keyword'
from (irb):3
So the Ruby/AWS library is the way to go. There is a pretty good tutorial here
Pablo, ruby-aaws worked nearly out of the box for me. I just had to setup a .amazonrc file with the configuration options like my amazon affiliate id and AWS public and secret keys.
I second Ruby/AWS. It has support for ListSearch and ListLookup. Amazon-ecs has comparatively less support for the API.