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WSL-Amazon
Version 3.1.1
Zip Archive: 416 KB
Includes Full
Open Source Code,
Example Project, and
Documentation.
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New Open Source WSL-Amazon 3.1
Easily Integrate
Amazon Web Services
into Your REALbasic Applications
This HTTPSocket subclass wraps
the
Amazon Product Advertising API into an easy-to-use library of more than 30 powerful methods and 150 properties with support for their US, UK, German, French, Canadian, and Japanese Amazon stores. Includes
extensive search and information retrieval capabilities -- all from within your REALbasic applications!
This FREE OPEN SOURCE class library also comes with the project
source code for a fully-functional Amazon-powered application,
which you can reuse in your own REALbasic projects!
Key Features:
- Search by Keyword, ASIN, UPC, Author, Artist/Musician, Actor/Actress, Film Director,
Manufacturer, Similar Products, Listmania ID, Wishlist ID, or special Text Stream
Phrases.
- Search All of Amazon or choose from specific Category filters such as Books, Music,
DVD, Software, and many others.
- Retrieves extensive product details, including product images.
- Supports the US, UK, German, French, Canadian, and Japanese Amazon stores.
- Display Customer Reviews.
- Get Ratings as either an Integer (Number) or Picture (Stars).
- Show related Accessories, Listmania Lists and Similar Products.
- Display Third-Party Marketplace Offers for a selected product.
- Unicode-savvy: receives Amazon data in UTF-8 format.
- Includes project source code for a fully-functional Amazon-powered application.
As free open source software, WSL-Amazon does NOT include support of any kind. For instructions on how to quickly and easily set-up WSL-Amazon in your REALbasic projects, please refer to the documentation that's included in the WSL-Amazon download.
Why has WSL-Amazon been open sourced?
Due to restrictions added to Amazon.com's Product Advertising API License Agreement back in May 2009, we could no longer offer the WSL-Amazon component for REALbasic as a commercial product, so at the time, we opted to discontinue it.
Since then, we've received quite a few emails from developers who were interested in WSL-Amazon because they were having trouble programming their own code to utilize Amazon's Product Advertising API. Amazon recently added a complicated authentication signature scheme to their API, which has become a difficult obstacle for many developers to problem solve.
Since there seems to be a demand for this code, we decided to update WSL-Amazon to work with Amazon's current authentication signature requirement and release this new version as a free open source download for the REALbasic community to enjoy!
If you find these classes useful, please consider making a PayPal donation on our web site or purchasing one of our software products or books to help support continued development.
The open source SHA256 class (included in WSL-Amazon) was generously contributed by Charles Yeomans. Visit his web site: http://www.declaresub.com/
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Requirements
REALbasic 2006r3 or higher
An Internet connection
Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, or Linux
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