Using the Amazon Product API with AS3 – #FreeCodeSunday

Sunday, July 11th, 2010 | #FreeCodeSunday, Actionscript 3, Affiliate Marketing

This is really an update to an earlier post on how to use the Amazon Product API search and retrive products, all tied to your Amazon account. Using this information you can present information about each product, and drive traffic to the product page on Amazon. If the user then purchases the Product then you recieve a small amount of commission.

The problem with the old post was that Amazon changed their API requiring the request be signed and have a timestamp, so really the main new part is the included .php file, which you will of course need to edit to include your Amazon secret api key. To get one and see their documentation click here…

So if you can intergrate this information into a fun game or app and drive engagement through to the Product on Amazon in a way that is useful enough to your users that they then purchase the product, then you can make a few pennys. Well… maybe enough to buy lunch.

The source code goes into how to change the filter to search dvds instead of music, and there’s full API code to parse the XML for each Product into a Class instance to code against.

Credit for how to intergrate the Amazon signature methodology must go to www.ilovebonnie.net

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Using Amazon Products API and Flash | AdenForshaw.com
July 11, 2010

[...] Update: – Due to the Amazon API changes requiring Signature and Timestamps i have created a new post which updates this process here…. [...]

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