NAME

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

VERSION

$Id: APA.pm,v 0.5 2013/07/16 18:31:07 dankogai Exp $

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');
  $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:

• RT: CPAN's request tracker

  http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=URI-Amazon-APA

• AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

  http://annocpan.org/dist/URI-Amazon-APA

• CPAN Ratings

  http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/URI-Amazon-APA

• Search CPAN

  http://search.cpan.org/dist/URI-Amazon-APA/

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.