<p>What Python libraries do folks use for querying Amazon product data? (Amazon Associates Web Service - used to be called E-Commerce API, or something along those lines).</p>

<p>Based on my research, <a href="http://pyaws.sourceforge.net/" rel="noreferrer">PyAWS</a> seems okay, but still pretty raw (and hasn't been updated in a while).  Wondering if there's an obvious canonical library that I'm just missing.</p>

[{'answer_id': 49222, 'author': 'Tony Meyer', 'author_id': 4966, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4966', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>The only other library I\'m aware of is <a href="http://www.josephson.org/projects/pyamazon/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">pyAmazon</a>, which is the predecessor of pyaws.  If you\'re familiar with the Amazon API (or are willing to become so), you could probably put together something yourself with <a href="http://pywebsvcs.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ZSI</a>.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 74335, 'author': 'Greg', 'author_id': 13009, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/13009', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>pyaws seems to be the best one out there.  I used it here (<a href="http://utilitymill.com/edit/get_Book_Data_by_ISBNs" rel="nofollow noreferrer">my source code</a>)  It worked fine for me.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 1084257, 'author': 'Dan', 'author_id': 37078, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/37078', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>pyaws is the best in my opinion.  The most available version is 0.2.0, but there is also a version 0.3.0 that is somewhat harder to find.  The best maintained version of it that I have found though, which is based on 0.3.0, is on <a href="http://bitbucket.org/johnpaulett/pyaws/overview/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">bitbucket</a>.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 1087797, 'author': 'Jamie Czuy', 'author_id': 1928889, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1928889', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>How about <a href="http://code.google.com/p/boto/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">boto</a>? Anyone have any experience with it? I just started looking for a Python package for Amazon and boto looks up to date (v1.8c release 28-Jun-2009), active and complete (has a long list of supported interfaces).</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 1533430, 'author': 'Jon Hadley', 'author_id': 161525, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/161525', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>PyAWS is no longer hosted on SourceForge. The latest version (0.3.0) is available via the <a href="http://kunxi.org/archives/2008/05/pyaws-030-released/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">authors website</a>.</p>\n\n<p>Make sure you also grab the patch for Amazons latest API changes, mentioned in the comments.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 2448578, 'author': 'Sebastian', 'author_id': 294082, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/294082', 'pm_score': 4, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>There is now another alternative: <a href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-amazon-product-api/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">python-amazon-product-api</a>. It supports API version <s>2009-11-01</s> 2010-12-01.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 4251893, 'author': 'tobych', 'author_id': 76452, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/76452', 'pm_score': 5, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I\'m using <a href="https://github.com/aurorasoftware/bottlenose">Bottlenose</a>, Dan Loewenherz\'s "super awesome Python wrapper for the Amazon Product Advertising API". It doesn\'t parse the XML, so I\'m using <a href="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify.html">lxml.objectify</a>:</p>\n\n<pre><code>ACCESS_KEY_ID = "..."\nSECRET_KEY = "..."\nASSOC_TAG = "..."\n\nimport bottlenose\namazon = bottlenose.Amazon(ACCESS_KEY_ID, SECRET_KEY, ASSOC_TAG)\nresponse=amazon.ItemLookup(ItemId="B0018AFK38", ResponseGroup="OfferSummary")\n\nfrom lxml import objectify\nroot = objectify.fromstring(response)\nroot.Items.Item.OfferSummary.LowestNewPrice.FormattedPrice\n</code></pre>\n'}, {'answer_id': 10076757, 'author': 'yoav.aviram', 'author_id': 25287, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/25287', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>If what you are looking for is a simple, object oriented access to Amazon products (lookup and search), try <strong>python-amazon-simple-product-api</strong>. Its a new project i\'ve just released:</p>\n\n<p><a href="http://github.com/yoavaviram/python-amazon-simple-product-api">http://github.com/yoavaviram/python-amazon-simple-product-api</a></p>\n\n<p>Its the new kid on the block!</p>\n'}]
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