Installation¶
This process assumes you have already created an Amazon Marketplace Webservices (MWS) account.
Setup API Access¶
Go to https://developer.amazonservices.com (or .ca/.de/.jp/.fr/.co.uk)
Click on the Sign up for MWS button and follow the instructions.
- At the end you must have a screen (print it and save it !)
- This screen will contain the following credentials:
- Merchant Id (or Seller Id) - This is your unique merchant/seller ID
- Marketplace Id - This is the id for the marketplace you are selling on.
- It allows you to target specific markerplaces (US, Japan, Europe, etc..) in which you are authorized to sell.
- Access key - Used to identify the user of this API.
- Secret key - This is used to authenticate every request sent to Amazon
Make sure to keep this confidential as these credentials can potentially compromise your account.
Test API Access¶
- Go to https://mws.amazonservices.com/scratchpad/index.html (you can change the domain .com like before)
- In API selection, choose Products and ListMatchingProducts
- In Authentication put your credentials.
- Input the desired MarketplaceId and put “python” in Query
- Click on the submit button
If everything is good, you can see a response 200 and a list of item matching python