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Major Retailer Gift Card APIs

I was looking for which major retailers had gift card APIs. For example Amazon has the Corporate Gift Card Program: http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=165034011 where you can either buy a bulk amount of gift codes and then they can send you a CSV file that can be imported into a DB, or (if you spend enough) they have an API for ...

Programming Books on the Kindle

I recently graduated, as a learn in pick up new things in the workspace, I find myself constantly buying more and more reference books for learning. Which can be a hassle to carry around. How is the selection of technical books on the amazon kindle? If not do you recommend any other book reader? I am sorry if it isn't appropriate place...

Amazon API - retrieve product description

Does anyone know how to retrieve the product description from the Amazon API? I have asked their forum with no success. I can access the detailed page URL from an ItemLookUp but then I have to screenscrape which is not ideal. Thanks, Steve ...

Best Amazon server instance to use for Java web apps

I want to try out the Amazon hosting service. I want to deploy a Java web application. There are many server images, and I am trying to determine which one I should use. My requirements are simple: Should allow me to use Tomcat and Java and preferably MySQL Other related software is good too Is there a) an instance you recommend b...

CakePHP and AmazonS3.. getting the included files (JS, CSS, etc) to load from Amazon S3?

I want to make it so that all of my css and JS files are loaded from Amazon s3 since this would make things faster for the end user and save on bandwidth costs since s3 is cheaper than my cloud provider for bandwidth... I am wondering if in my .ctp if I just change this to the full s3 path if cake will have the end user DL it from that u...

split UITableView in iPhone

In the amazon iphone app home page there is a grouped table view that has two cells on one row. How can I recreate this? ...

Amazon EC2 as web server?

Hi everybody, I have thought a lot recently about the different hosting types that are available out there. We can get pretty decent latency (average) from an EC2 instance in Europe (we're situated in Sweden) and the cost is pretty good. Obviously, the possibility of scaling up and down instances is amazing for us that's in a really exp...

Using cURL for Amazon Associates reports... possible?

I've got a couple of affiliate sites and would like to bring together the earnings reports from several Amazon sites into one place, for easier viewing and analysis. I get the impression that cURL can be used to get external webpage content, which I could then scrape to obtain the necessary info. However, I've hit a wall in trying to lo...

Preventing Amazon S3 Bandwidth Stealing?

I have a Image Hosting Site that is using Amazon S3 as a main source for bandwith and storage. I have a few option here to prevent other sources from stealing my bandwith, but I am hoping there are more or other alternatives. Query String Authentication Url Rewrite Are there better ways to prevent thieves from hot-linking to my Amaz...

Is there any API from Amazon that i can use to list my products from magento site?

Is there any API from Amazon that i can use to list my products from magento site? The API must be free to use.I dont want to use any third party tools. ...

need some guidance on usage of Amazon AWS

hi all every once in a while i read/hear about AWS and now i tried reading the docs. But such docs seem to be written for people who already know which AWS they need to use and only search for how it can be used. So, for myself, to understand AWS better i try to sketch a hypothetical Webapplication with a few questions. The apps purpo...

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Hi, Does anyone know what service you can use to access amazon merchant (Seller) details. Say for example: I want to view all the orders I have received on my own site, or I want to add the ability to list products to sell on amazon.com using my own site (something similar to what auctivia.com is to ebay). What I basically want to do...

Generating unique URL based on user IP for Amazon cloudfront content

I have contents in Amazon cloudfront. These contents are private but will be given access to users when they purchase to get access to the contents for limited period of time. I want the URLs given to the users be generated for that specific user IP or may be current session key. I am aware of the option of generating an authenticated ...

integrating amazon mp3 in my android application

Hi all, in my android application i want to add the functionality the user to buy song from amazon. The easiest way to do is i think to use amazon mp3 application to communicate with amazon store. I found this piece of code from default music player Intent i = new Intent(); i.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK); i.setAction(MediaSto...

Amazon EC2 to S3 transfer

I wanted to backup my EC2 instance to S3. I downloaded EC2 tools from: http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=351. I set up environment variables to: EC2_HOME=<EC2 tools directory> EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=<path to private key generated after I created new X.509 certificate> EC2_CERT=<path to certificate I created ...

Amazon CloudFront invalidation in ASP.Net

Hi everyone I am not sure how to send a request using ASP.Net to Amazon CloudFront to invalidate an object. The details are here http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/index.html?Invalidation.html but I am not sure how to implement this in ASP.Net... can someone please help? ...

Are there any API's for Amazon Web Services PRICING?

Are there any API's that have up-to-date pricing on Amazon Web Services? Something that can be queried, for example, for the latest price S3 for a given region, or EC2, etc. thanks ...

Looking up Editions of a Book

Is there a way to look up the various editions of a book based on its ISBN using the Amazon Product Advertising API? And, more generally, what are the various choices for looking up edition metadata on a book? Only one I know of for sure is the xISBN api from worldcat On my site we have a "more editions" button for when people search ...

Flex and Amazon Payments

I am trying to get amazon payments working w/ my flex app, as shown here: http://miti.pricope.com/2009/07/11/using-amazon-flexible-payment-system-with-flex/ I've done exactly as he says, I've downloaded the files & changed the access key & secret key. When I run it on localhost or my production server I get "Signature did not match" Wh...

Amazon Flexible Payments...CBUISingleUsePipelineSample.php is wrong

I've downloaded the php library for amazon flexible payments. I am following the included instructions and ran CBUISingleUsePipelineSample.php, as the docs say. The instructions say "The return URL will include expiry, tokenID, status, callerReference and signature parameters." When I run that file, expiry & tokenID are missing from my...