NAME

URI::Amazon::APA - URI to access Amazon Product Advertising API

VERSION

$Id: APA.pm,v 0.6 2018/09/22 14:19:06 dankogai Exp dankogai $

SYNOPSIS

# self-explanatory
use strict;
use warnings;
use URI::Amazon::APA;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use XML::Simple;
use YAML::Syck;

use URI::Amazon::APA; # instead of URI
my $u = URI::Amazon::APA->new('http://webservices.amazon.com/onca/xml');
# or                           https://webservices.amazon.com/onca/xml
$u->query_form(
  Service     => 'AWSECommerceService',
  Operation   => 'ItemSearch',
  Title       => shift || 'Perl',
  SearchIndex => 'Books',
);
$u->sign(
  key    => $public_key,
  secret => $private_key,
);

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $r  = $ua->get($u);
if ( $r->is_success ) {
  print YAML::Syck::Dump( XMLin( $r->content ) );
}
else {
  print $r->status_line, $r->as_string;
}

EXPORT

None.

METHODS

This adds the following methods to URI object

sign

Sings the URI accordingly to the Amazon Product Advertising API.

$u->sign(
  key    => $public_key,
  secret => $private_key,
);

signature

Checks the signature within the URI;

print "The signature is " : $u->signature;

AUTHOR

Dan Kogai, <dankogai at dan.co.jp>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-uri-amazon-apa at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=URI-Amazon-APA. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc URI::Amazon::APA

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSECommerceService/latest/DG/index.html?rest-signature.html

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2009 Dan Kogai, all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.