"""Python wrapper for Amazon web APIs This module allows you to access Amazon's web APIs, to do things like search Amazon and get the results programmatically. Described here: http://www.amazon.com/webservices You need a Amazon-provided license key to use these services. Follow the link above to get one. These functions will look in several places (in this order) for the license key: - the "license_key" argument of each function - the module-level LICENSE_KEY variable (call setLicense once to set it) - an environment variable called AMAZON_LICENSE_KEY - a file called ".amazonkey" in the current directory - a file called "amazonkey.txt" in the current directory - a file called ".amazonkey" in your home directory - a file called "amazonkey.txt" in your home directory - a file called ".amazonkey" in the same directory as amazon.py - a file called "amazonkey.txt" in the same directory as amazon.py Sample usage: >>> import amazon >>> amazon.setLicense('...') # must get your own key! >>> pythonBooks = amazon.searchByKeyword('Python') >>> pythonBooks[0].ProductName u'Learning Python (Help for Programmers)' >>> pythonBooks[0].URL ... >>> pythonBooks[0].OurPrice ... Other available functions: - browseBestSellers - searchByASIN - searchByUPC - searchByAuthor - searchByArtist - searchByActor - searchByDirector - searchByManufacturer - searchByListMania - searchSimilar - searchByWishlist Other usage notes: - Most functions can take product_line as well, see source for possible values - All functions can take type="lite" to get less detail in results - All functions can take page=N to get second, third, fourth page of results - All functions can take license_key="XYZ", instead of setting it globally - All functions can take http_proxy="http://x/y/z" which overrides your system setting """ __author__ = "Mark Pilgrim (f8dy@diveintomark.org)" __version__ = "0.61" __cvsversion__ = "$Revision$"[11:-2] __date__ = "$Date$"[7:-2] __copyright__ = "Copyright (c) 2002 Mark Pilgrim" __license__ = "Python" # Powersearch and return object type fix by Joseph Reagle <geek@goatee.net> from xml.dom import minidom import os, sys, getopt, cgi, urllib try: import timeoutsocket # http://www.timo-tasi.org/python/timeoutsocket.py timeoutsocket.setDefaultSocketTimeout(10) except ImportError: pass LICENSE_KEY = None HTTP_PROXY = None # don't touch the rest of these constants class AmazonError(Exception): pass class NoLicenseKey(Exception): pass _amazonfile1 = ".amazonkey" _amazonfile2 = "amazonkey.txt" _licenseLocations = ( (lambda key: key, 'passed to the function in license_key variable'), (lambda key: LICENSE_KEY, 'module-level LICENSE_KEY variable (call setLicense to set it)'), (lambda key: os.environ.get('AMAZON_LICENSE_KEY', None), 'an environment variable called AMAZON_LICENSE_KEY'), (lambda key: _contentsOf(os.getcwd(), _amazonfile1), '%s in the current directory' % _amazonfile1), (lambda key: _contentsOf(os.getcwd(), _amazonfile2), '%s in the current directory' % _amazonfile2), (lambda key: _contentsOf(os.environ.get('HOME', ''), _amazonfile1), '%s in your home directory' % _amazonfile1), (lambda key: _contentsOf(os.environ.get('HOME', ''), _amazonfile2), '%s in your home directory' % _amazonfile2), (lambda key: _contentsOf(_getScriptDir(), _amazonfile1), '%s in the amazon.py directory' % _amazonfile1), (lambda key: _contentsOf(_getScriptDir(), _amazonfile2), '%s in the amazon.py directory' % _amazonfile2) ) ## administrative functions def version(): print """PyAmazon %(__version__)s %(__copyright__)s released %(__date__)s """ % globals() ## utility functions def setLicense(license_key): """set license key""" global LICENSE_KEY LICENSE_KEY = license_key def getLicense(license_key = None): """get license key license key can come from any number of locations; see module docs for search order""" for get, location in _licenseLocations: rc = get(license_key) if rc: return rc raise NoLicenseKey, 'get a license key at http://www.amazon.com/webservices' def setProxy(http_proxy): """set HTTP proxy""" global HTTP_PROXY HTTP_PROXY = http_proxy def getProxy(http_proxy = None): """get HTTP proxy""" return http_proxy or HTTP_PROXY def getProxies(http_proxy = None): http_proxy = getProxy(http_proxy) if http_proxy: proxies = {"http": http_proxy} else: proxies = None return proxies def _contentsOf(dirname, filename): filename = os.path.join(dirname, filename) if not os.path.exists(filename): return None fsock = open(filename) contents = fsock.read() fsock.close() return contents def _getScriptDir(): if __name__ == '__main__': return os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0])) else: return os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(sys.modules[__name__].__file__)) class Bag: pass def unmarshal(element): rc = Bag() if isinstance(element, minidom.Element) and (element.tagName == 'Details'): rc.URL = element.attributes["url"].value childElements = [e for e in element.childNodes if isinstance(e, minidom.Element)] if childElements: for child in childElements: key = child.tagName if hasattr(rc, key): if type(getattr(rc, key)) <> type([]): setattr(rc, key, [getattr(rc, key)]) setattr(rc, key, getattr(rc, key) + [unmarshal(child)]) elif isinstance(child, minidom.Element) and (child.tagName == 'Details'): # make the first Details element a key setattr(rc,key,[unmarshal(child)]) #dbg: because otherwise 'hasattr' only tests #dbg: on the second occurence: if there's a #dbg: single return to a query, it's not a #dbg: list. This module should always #dbg: return a list of Details objects. else: setattr(rc, key, unmarshal(child)) else: rc = "".join([e.data for e in element.childNodes if isinstance(e, minidom.Text)]) if element.tagName == 'SalesRank': rc = int(rc.replace(',', '')) return rc def buildURL(search_type, keyword, product_line, type, page, license_key): url = "http://xml.amazon.com/onca/xml?v=1.0&f=xml&t=webservices-20" url += "&dev-t=%s" % license_key.strip() url += "&type=%s" % type if page: url += "&page=%s" % page if product_line: url += "&mode=%s" % product_line url += "&%s=%s" % (search_type, urllib.quote(keyword)) return url ## main functions def search(search_type, keyword, product_line, type="heavy", page=None, license_key = None, http_proxy = None): """search Amazon You need a license key to call this function; see http://www.amazon.com/webservices to get one. Then you can either pass it to this function every time, or set it globally; see the module docs for details. Parameters: keyword - keyword to search search_type - in (KeywordSearch, BrowseNodeSearch, AsinSearch, UpcSearch, AuthorSearch, ArtistSearch, ActorSearch, DirectorSearch, ManufacturerSearch, ListManiaSearch, SimilaritySearch) product_line - type of product to search for. restrictions based on search_type UpcSearch - in (music, classical) AuthorSearch - must be "books" ArtistSearch - in (music, classical) ActorSearch - in (dvd, vhs, video) DirectorSearch - in (dvd, vhs, video) ManufacturerSearch - in (electronics, kitchen, videogames, software, photo, pc-hardware) http_proxy (optional) - address of HTTP proxy to use for sending and receiving SOAP messages Returns: list of Bags, each Bag may contain the following attributes: Asin - Amazon ID ("ASIN" number) of this item Authors - list of authors Availability - "available", etc. BrowseList - list of related categories Catalog - catalog type ("Book", etc) CollectiblePrice - ?, format "$34.95" ImageUrlLarge - URL of large image of this item ImageUrlMedium - URL of medium image of this item ImageUrlSmall - URL of small image of this item Isbn - ISBN number ListPrice - list price, format "$34.95" Lists - list of ListMania lists that include this item Manufacturer - manufacturer Media - media ("Paperback", "Audio CD", etc) NumMedia - number of different media types in which this item is available OurPrice - Amazon price, format "$24.47" ProductName - name of this item ReleaseDate - release date, format "09 April, 1999" Reviews - reviews (AvgCustomerRating, plus list of CustomerReview with Rating, Summary, Content) SalesRank - sales rank (integer) SimilarProducts - list of Product, which is ASIN number ThirdPartyNewPrice - ?, format "$34.95" URL - URL of this item """ license_key = getLicense(license_key) url = buildURL(search_type, keyword, product_line, type, page, license_key) proxies = getProxies(http_proxy) u = urllib.FancyURLopener(proxies) usock = u.open(url) xmldoc = minidom.parse(usock) # from xml.dom.ext import PrettyPrint # PrettyPrint(xmldoc) usock.close() data = unmarshal(xmldoc).ProductInfo if hasattr(data, 'ErrorMsg'): raise AmazonError, data.ErrorMsg else: return data.Details def searchByKeyword(keyword, product_line="books", type="heavy", page=1, license_key=None, http_proxy=None): return search("KeywordSearch", keyword, product_line, type, page, license_key, http_proxy) def browseBestSellers(browse_node, product_line="books", type="heavy", page=1, license_key=None, http_proxy=None): return search("BrowseNodeSearch", browse_node, product_line, type, page, license_key, http_proxy) def searchByASIN(ASIN, type="heavy", license_key=None, http_proxy=None): return search("AsinSearch", ASIN, None, type, None, license_key, http_proxy) def searchByUPC(UPC, type="heavy", license_key=None, http_proxy=None): return search("UpcSearch", UPC, None, type, None, license_key, http_proxy) def searchByAuthor(author, type="heavy", page=1, license_key=None, http_proxy=None): return search("AuthorSearch", author, "books", type, page, license_key, http_proxy) def searchByArtist(artist, product_line="music", type="heavy", page=1, license_key=None, http_proxy=None): if product_line not in ("music", "classical"): raise AmazonError, "product_line must be in ('music', 'classical')" return search("ArtistSearch", artist, product_line, type, page, license_key, http_proxy) def searchByActor(actor, product_line="dvd", type="heavy", page=1, license_key=None, http_proxy=None): if product_line not in ("dvd", "vhs", "video"): raise AmazonError, "product_line must be in ('dvd', 'vhs', 'video')" return search("ActorSearch", actor, product_line, type, page, license_key, http_proxy) def searchByDirector(director, product_line="dvd", type="heavy", page=1, license_key=None, http_proxy=None): if product_line not in ("dvd", "vhs", "video"): raise AmazonError, "product_line must be in ('dvd', 'vhs', 'video')" return search("DirectorSearch", director, product_line, type, page, license_key, http_proxy) def searchByManufacturer(manufacturer, product_line="pc-hardware", type="heavy", page=1, license_key=None, http_proxy=None): if product_line not in ("electronics", "kitchen", "videogames", "software", "photo", "pc-hardware"): raise AmazonError, "product_line must be in ('electronics', 'kitchen', 'videogames', 'software', 'photo', 'pc-hardware')" return search("ManufacturerSearch", manufacturer, product_line, type, page, license_key, http_proxy) def searchByListMania(listManiaID, type="heavy", page=1, license_key=None, http_proxy=None): return search("ListManiaSearch", listManiaID, None, type, page, license_key, http_proxy) def searchSimilar(ASIN, type="heavy", page=1, license_key=None, http_proxy=None): return search("SimilaritySearch", ASIN, None, type, page, license_key, http_proxy) def searchByWishlist(wishlistID, type="heavy", page=1, license_key=None, http_proxy=None): return search("WishlistSearch", wishlistID, None, type, page, license_key, http_proxy) def searchByPower(keyword, product_line="books", type="heavy", page=1, license_key=None, http_proxy=None): return search("PowerSearch", keyword, product_line, type, page, license_key, http_proxy) # >>> RecentKing = amazon.searchByPower('author:Stephen King and pubdate:2003') # >>> SnowCrash = amazon.searchByPower('title:Snow Crash')