Sadly Amazon Trumped It

  • I was very happy to find this plugin, but found the means to get the keys a bit daunting. When I finally had all of the areas filled in except the part to enter the secret key, I discovered that Amazon had a little announcement that reads, “As described in a previous announcement, you cannot retrieve the existing secret access keys for your AWS root account, though you can still create a new root access key at any time.” They recommend you start a different type of account, but being as explanations are scant with this plugin and the Amazon website itself was filled with a plethora of things I didn’t get and – most importantly – literally don’t have time to research up on and read, I have had to give up. Maybe it was a good plugin at one time, but Amazon fixed that real good.

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  • Plugin Author jhanbackjr

    (@jhanbackjr)

    Hello, rainbowprophet.

    Thanks for using ScrapeAZon. I’m sorry you had issues with Amazon’s Product Advertising API’s root secret key for your account. Unfortunately, Amazon’s Product Advertising API does not yet support IAM authentication, so you’re forced to use the root account access keys and secret keys. This is a limitation of the Product Advertising API, not the plugin. Information about that limitation is here on Amazon’s site:

    https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/advertising/api/detail/your-account.html

    The plugin’s FAQ also mentions this limitation, and “This must be your root AWS Secret Key” is mentioned on the plugin’s Settings page.

    Let me know if I can be of assistance in getting the plugin working for you should you decide to try again. I’m happy to help.

    James

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