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redtoad / python-amazon-product-api

A Python wrapper for the Amazon Product Advertising API. This module offers a light-weight access to the latest version of the Amazon Product Advertising API without getting in your way.
https://pypi.org/project/python-amazon-product-api/
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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CustomerReviews cannot be retrieved anymore #19

Closed redtoad closed 12 years ago

redtoad commented 13 years ago

Originally reported by Sebastian Rahlf (Bitbucket: basti, GitHub: basti)

Amazon has changed their API.

"On November 8, 2010 the Reviews response group of the Product Advertising API will no longer return customer reviews content and instead will return a link to customer reviews content hosted on Amazon.com. You will be able to display customer reviews on your site using that link. Please refer to the Product Advertising API Developer guide found here for more details. The Reviews response group will continue to function as before until November 8 and the new link to customer reviews is available to you now through the Product Advertising API as well." https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/advertising/api/detail/main.html

This breaks examples/reviews.py

redtoad commented 12 years ago

Original comment by Anonymous

Curious. Does that mean it's impossible to pull customer reviews now?

redtoad commented 12 years ago

Original comment by Sebastian Rahlf (Bitbucket: basti, GitHub: basti)

Customer reviews can only be obtained via parsing Amazon's HTML, which is very likely frowned upon at the very least. Therefor the example uses EditorialReviews now (<<changeset 46f6e976ee52>>).