[Koha-bugs] [Bug 5568] New: Upgrade Amazon module to support Product Advertising API

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5568

           Summary: Upgrade Amazon module to support Product Advertising
                    API
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           Product: Koha
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P5
         Component: OPAC
        AssignedTo: oleonard at myacpl.org
        ReportedBy: jeremy at bicha.net
         QAContact: koha-bugs at lists.koha-community.org
   Estimated Hours: 0.0


Amazon reviews no longer display in OPAC because Amazon has changed the API
again. More information can be found in the documentation:
http://aws.amazon.com/archives/Product%20Advertising%20API

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Dear Developer,

On November 8, 2010 the Reviews response group of the Product Advertising API
will no longer return customer reviews content and instead will return a link
to customer reviews content hosted on Amazon.com. You will be able to display
customer reviews on your site using that link. Please refer to the Product
Advertising API Developer guide found here for more details. The Reviews
response group will continue to function as before until November 8 and the new
link to customer reviews is available to you now through the Product
Advertising API as well.

We are introducing efficiency guidelines for high volume users related to API
usage. These guidelines are designed to promote efficient use of the API while
providing the most effective advertising functionality and feature-set for
application developers like you. Starting October 15 all usage will be subject
to the efficiency guidelines. In addition, due to low usage, we plan to
deprecate a subset of API operations and response groups. Please refer to the
"Efficiency Guidelines" and "API Changes" sections below for details on the
efficiency guidelines and API operations/response groups slated for
deprecation. The efficiency guidelines will be phased in over a period of three
months, starting July 15, and by October 15 all usage will be subject to these
guidelines.

The Product Advertising API Team.

Efficiency Guidelines
The purpose of the Product Advertising API is to advertise Amazon Products and
thereby enable Associates to make money by creating Amazon advertisements and
sending traffic back to Amazon. A small number of users are requesting very
large amounts of product data while generating a very small amount of product
sales. The Product Advertising API efficiency guidelines are designed to
promote efficient use of the API. Each account used to access the Product
Advertising API will be allowed an initial usage limit of 2,000 requests per
hour. Each account will receive an additional 500 requests per hour (up to a
maximum of 25,000 requests per hour) for every $1 of shipped item revenue
driven per hour in a trailing 30-day period. Usage thresholds are recalculated
daily based on revenue performance. To ensure that each account qualifies for
the additional threshold increase, the URLs served by the Product Advertising
API must be used when linking back to Amazon and the Associate tags used must
belong to the account owner.

API Changes
Due to low usage, the Product Advertising API operations and response groups
listed below will not be supported after October 15, 2010:

    Operations: CustomerContentLookup, CustomerContentSearch, Help, ListLookup,
ListSearch, TagLookup, TransactionLookup, VehiclePartLookup, VehiclePartSearch,
VehicleSearch.
    Response Group: ListmaniaLists, MerchantItemAttributes, PromotionDetails,
Subjects, Tags, TagsSummary, VariationMinimum

Additionally, due to low usage, we will be discontinuing Multiple Operation
Requests and the TextStream search parameter. 

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