I have a 10 digit string being passed to me, and I want to verify that it is a valid ASIN before doing more processing and/or redirection. I know that a non ISBN ASIN will always be non-numeric and 10 characters in length I just want to be able to tell if the item being passed is a valid ASIN or is it just a search string after I have ...
Hi. I have a pig script, that activates another python program. I was able to do so in my own hadoop environment, but I always fail when I run my script in Amazon map reduce WS. The log say: org.apache.pig.backend.executionengine.ExecException: ERROR 2090: Received Error while processing the reduce plan: '' failed with exit status: 127...
hi i am new in Zend framework ,i want to compare price of the item from at least 10 merchant using the Zend_Service_Amazon,i get the much information about only one merchant,and what of all other function that provide by amazon like selllerlookup etc. Have Dream Day Thanks in Advance ...
I know how to setup a form that goes to the buy page on amazon. How can I setup a button on my page to go to the Featured Merchants page so the buyer can choose to buy the product new or used from any seller? Thanks. ...
Maybe it's not a specific programming question, that's why I got "The question you're asking appears subjective and is likely to be closed." warning bar once I typed the question title (how stackoverflow achieve this? interesting. by keyword?) Anyway, my question is about Amazon API, because I didn't have previous experiences on that. ...
I have a list of books listed by their titles in a text file. I want to write a script which can use a web service like Google scholar or amazon to search for the books and return me a xml or bibtex file with citation info for each book. Which programming tools can I use for this kind of automated search ? ...
Why does Amazon.com have <!-- MEOW --> at the end of their landing page? I have heard that it is just some text that some sort of script or component looks for to tell if the entire page was rendered. Does anyone know if this is true, and if so, is it a good (or common) website monitoring practice? ...
Hi, I'm using the amazon-product-advertising-api gem and am following the example code to try and grab music album data. The code I have is as follows: post '/mash' do username = params[:username] user = Scrobbler::User.new(username) @recommendations = user.recommendations @urls = { } @recommendations.each do |t...
I hope everyone is doing well. I'm having an issue on my girlfriend's Blog (www.lawsandlanguages.com). Basically, she suscribed to the Amazon Affiliate Program and they gave her this poorly written code she's supposed to put in her header section so Amazon can keep a track of referrals and purchases coming from her blog. This code is gen...
Hello, I'm new to this "information mining". So I am wondering is there an API that will let me get needed information about products from Amazon's web site? Or, if there isn't, how would you do that? Maybe any suggestion/reference to some technology which can do this? Thanks in advance for sharing. ...
How to create subfolder in a bucket? $s3->createBucket creates only a bucket if I tried $s3->create('bucket/subfolder') it says: bucket name contains invalid characters. tried this either: $s3->registerStreamWrapper("s3"); mkdir("s3://bucket/subfolder"); didn't work either. P.S: credentials are valid. so don't tell me that I'm passi...
Has anyone using .net actually worked out how to successfully sign a signature to use with CloudFront private content? After a couple of days of attempts all I can get is Access Denied. I have been working with variations of the following code and also tried using OpenSSL.Net and AWSSDK but that does not have a sign method for RSA-SHA1 ...
Hi all, I need to show image(thumbnail) in view page using controller/action.(like: /Image/Thumbnail) I can send image file that is stored locally by calling the method in controller. // sample code public FileResult Thumbnail() { // get image Stream outFile = System.IO.File.Open("c:\\test.jpg", FileMode.Open); // send ima...
Hi, I am thinking of running a hosted service using Amazon Services (PHP + mySQL). What I like to do is have a site where someone registers, pays PayPal and returns to site where they will get an automated information to their mySQL account. So this mySQL account would only be used by them. They can create tables, etc. Some questions ar...
Hello, I am new to PHP and I am trying to create a web mashup with amazon and ebay. My problem is that I have a function called "printCategoryItems()" which sets a variable called $keyword. I want to use this variable elsewhere in the code but I can't get it to work. For Example, <?php function printCategoryItems(){ if(isset($_GE...
About how much would I pay a month for EC2 to convert video files from other formats into flvs? How much for a file? ...
I installed php5 on my windows system and tried to execute the following script with a command-line console: <?php // load in credentials $creds = parse_ini_file('/etc/aws.conf'); // Define query string keys/values $params = array( 'Action' => 'DescribeAvailabilityZones', 'AWSAccessKeyId' => $creds['access_key'], 'Timestamp...
I was wondering how I can use the Amazon Search API in my iPhone app code. I've looked around and can't really find any good usage examples. My idea would be the lookup of a certain, specific Amazon product and the ability to let the user buy that item. Thanks. Any help would be great! Update: I didn't mean ordering. I just mean the ...
I want to process the logs from my web server as it comes in using Hadoop (Amazon Elastic mapreduce). I googled for help but nothing useful. I would like to know if this can be done or is there any alternative way to do this. ...
Amazon exposes RSS feeds for new products with a certain tag, such as http://www.amazon.com/rss/tag/blu-ray/new They also expose new popular products with http://www.amazon.com/gp/new-releases/books Is there a way to get a feed of all new products, regardless of tag and popularity? ...