400 request error with provided example

[Karlheinzniebuhr]

After running the sample commands provided in the documentation, `from amazon.api import AmazonAPI

amazon = AmazonAPI(AMAZON_ACCESS_KEY, AMAZON_SECRET_KEY, AMAZON_ASSOC_TAG)

product = amazon.lookup(ItemId='B00EOE0WKQ')`

I'm getting this error:

product = amazon.lookup(ItemId='B00EOE0WKQ') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/amazon/api.py", line 174, in lookup response = self.api.ItemLookup(ResponseGroup=ResponseGroup, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bottlenose/api.py", line 265, in __call__ {'api_url': api_url, 'cache_url': cache_url}) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bottlenose/api.py", line 226, in _call_api return urllib2.urlopen(api_request, timeout=self.Timeout) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 154, in urlopen return opener.open(url, data, timeout) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 435, in open response = meth(req, response) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 548, in http_response 'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 473, in error return self._call_chain(*args) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 407, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 556, in http_error_default raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp) urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request

I have the latest python 2.9.13 and all packages with the latest versions also.

[Karlheinzniebuhr]

Ok so I had to activate my api key for the product api, it's weird that this step is not included in the api registering process but anyway, that solved the problem

[AminSarafraz]

I have spent few hours to figure out how to "activate my api key for the product api" but no success. Would you please give more information on what I have to do. Apparently the preferred way is to create an IAM user, which I have done, but I'm not sure what kind of policy I need to assign to this new user. I have tried several policies but no luck so far. Any help is appreciated.

[Karlheinzniebuhr]

Just open this link and follow the registration steps, after doing that my API Key started working fine