Another one of Mark Pilgrim’s little gems. Creating links for the Amazon affiliate program is tedious since you can’t look up the item from the “build a link” page. You have locate the item, get its ID, then login and create the HTML. What a pain.
I’m thinking that, given a title, pyAmazon can run the query and return the properly formatted link.
And it works.
>>>import amazon
>>>amazon.setLicense('get your own')
>>>pythonBooks = amazon.searchByKeyword('Python')
>>>pythonBooks[0].ProductName
u’Perl How to Program, Introducing CGI and Python (With CD-ROM)’
>>>pythonBooks[0].Asin
u’0130284181′
so now to just write a wrapper for this so I can pass it a title and have it return the ASIN with all the other stuff around it.
Thanks, Mark. Again.
