Amazon Product

Amazon Product is a Nokogiri-backed Ruby wrapper to the Amazon Product Advertising API.

 Installation

Add to your Gemfile.

gem 'amazon_product'

 Usage

Set up a request.

require "amazon_product"

req = AmazonProduct["us"]

req.configure do |c|
  c.key    = AMAZON_KEY
  c.secret = AMAZON_SECRET
  c.tag    = AMAZON_ASSOCIATE_TAG
end

Look up a product.

req << { :operation' => 'ItemLookup',
         :item_id'   => '0679753354' }
resp = request.get

Or use a shorthand.

resp = req.find('0679753354')

Consume the entire response.

resp.to_hash

Quickly drop down to a particular node.

resp['Item']

Please see the project page for further detail.

Adapters

Amazon Product defaults to the Net::HTTP library but can be configured to use Curb or EM-HTTP-Request.

Branding is a delicate art

Amazon Product descends from Sucker. While I still like the vacuum metaphor, the name felt tiring after a while.