Amazon Product Advertising API C#

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Can somebody tell me C# excample of using Amazon Product Advertising API, for example to lookup item. All i found is not working now because of changes.

The most popular error is "Failed serialization of message body: ItemSearchRequest1 cant create temporary class"

Since they have the WSDL support, I would think you'd just have to add a reference to the web service in VS and be good to go, at least in terms of getting the call to go out. — James Manning, May 06 '12 at 23:39

live2 · Answer 1 · 2020-09-28T07:29:10.007

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You can use the following nuget package.

PM> Install-Package Nager.AmazonProductAdvertising

Search example

var authentication = new AmazonAuthentication();
authentication.AccessKey = "accesskey";
authentication.SecretKey = "secretkey";

var client = new AmazonProductAdvertisingClient(authentication, AmazonEndpoint.DE);
var result = await client.SearchItemsAsync("canon eos");

edited Sep 28 '20 at 07:29

answered Mar 22 '16 at 08:17

live2

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Thanks, I hope it will not use your associate id and access key :) – King_Fisher Sep 10 '17 at 07:27
The code is open source you can build your own binary https://github.com/tinohager/Nager.AmazonProductAdvertising – live2 Sep 10 '17 at 14:59
Nager.AmazonProductAdvertising -Not able to build. its keep throwing some errors on xml attributes(assembly reference missing eventhough Sytesm.Xml referenced), Any Idea ? – King_Fisher Sep 12 '17 at 20:05
I think here is the wrong place, if you have a problem create a issue – live2 Sep 12 '17 at 20:23
I meant the source code you referred github.com/tinohager/Nager.AmazonProductAdvertising. Can you able to build the source code in gitgub ? – King_Fisher Sep 12 '17 at 20:41

James Manning · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-06T23:42:30.880

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There's a C# sample here:

http://aws.amazon.com/code/Product-Advertising-API/3941

FWIW, the AWS thread I mentioned includes these steps for a workaround:

These are the steps as of January 31, 2012 to fix this issue in Visual Studio for .Net clients:

1) Click the "Show all files" button in the Solution Explorer for the project containing the amazon service reference.

2) Expand the reference and open the AWSECommerceService.wsdl file in the editor

3) On line 584 change the "maxOccurs' to "1".

<xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="ImageSets">

4) Save the AWSECommerceService.wsdl file

5) Right click Reference.svcmap and click "Run custom tool"

6) Expand Reference.svcmap and open either Reference.cs or Reference.vb

edited May 06 '12 at 23:42

answered May 06 '12 at 20:16

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i tried this but it isnt working i guess it because of new changes – user1262425 May 06 '12 at 20:49
FWIW, a quick google search seems to show a related thread @ https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=72429 – James Manning May 06 '12 at 23:39
Good to know! If you don't mind, add an entry on that AWS thread mentioning that it's still needed as of May 2012. :) – James Manning May 07 '12 at 16:18
Lol, just encountered the exact same bug! July 26th of 2011 first occurrence, now over a year later, still there! – JP Hellemons Sep 19 '12 at 10:48
By the way, it seems that my reference.cs is not updated and I still have 400 bad requests – JP Hellemons Sep 19 '12 at 14:25
link to download the sample is unfortunately broken :( – Mitch Wheat Feb 27 '14 at 06:17
This steps works like a charm. But did not understand what is the deal for step 5 and 6? – Teoman shipahi Oct 29 '15 at 04:28
@niico probably easiest to just use the nuget package from the other answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/36149251/215534 but optionally there’s the api details at https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/advertising/api/detail/main.html – James Manning Nov 17 '20 at 16:29

BernardG · Answer 3 · 2013-07-06T00:11:13.557

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If you want to use Html REST instead of Soap/Wsdl, I put an example updated for the 2011 API and Visual Studio 2012 on my blog: "Up to date CSharp REST sample"

edited Jul 06 '13 at 00:11

answered Apr 29 '13 at 10:15

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The link you provided appears to be broken. – Tod Birdsall Jun 19 '13 at 22:07
You're right, and I am sorry! The site is now bilingual, english/french, so the URL for his post changed. I edited the URL in the comment above, let me know if there is any problem. – BernardG Jun 21 '13 at 09:04
I just realised the link was broken again, I just updated it. – BernardG Jul 06 '13 at 00:11
Thanks a lot!! You saved my day. Been searching for a while and could not find a working solution. Your solution is very simple and love the light weight REST method. – Gopinath Oct 15 '13 at 04:01
@bernardG I could not find a link to the source code. Did you remove it? – Gene S Feb 15 '17 at 13:54
Link still dead. – Dr T Aug 14 '21 at 19:50

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