How to get started with Amazon Product Advertising API C#

Question

I'm doing this for the first time so I'm very new to this API. I need to write a C# program to fetch products by keywords, just like performing an item search on Amazon. I just started investigating on the ItemSearch API using these links:

• Item Search
• Search By Keyword

But I can't find any relevant code samples since the most recent one is 6 years ago... I understood that I have to have an "Associate Tag" but in order to do so, I need to provide a website URL which I currently don't have since I just started coding.

Do I have to have an "Associate Tag" right from the start in order to start developing ?

Are there any recent and relevant C# code samples ?

Answer 1

I came across this sample project in Git which can be found here: jz5/AmazonProductAdvtApiSample-2013

It has a good base which one can build on, so I hope it may come in handy to other users as well.

Answer 2

A current project to this assignment you can found here https://github.com/tinohager/Nager.AmazonProductAdvertising

The library is also available over nuget

PM> install-package Nager.AmazonProductAdvertising

Example:

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

var wrapper = new AmazonWrapper(authentication, AmazonEndpoint.US);
var result = wrapper.Search("canon eos", AmazonSearchIndex.Electronics, AmazonResponseGroup.Large);