Parameters Common To All Product Advertising Api Requests; Required Parameters - Amazon Product Advertising API Developer's Manual

Product Advertising API Developer Guide
Parameters Common to All Product Advertising API
Parameters Common to All Product Advertising
API Requests
Topics
• Required Parameters (p. 75)
• General, Optional Parameters (p. 76)
• XSL Parameters (p. 76)
• XML-Encoding Parameters (p. 77)
• Debugging Parameters (p. 77)
Product Advertising API operations use a variety of required and optional parameters. The API Reference
Guide describes the parameters that each operation can use.
There are, however, a number of parameters that all operations can use. These parameters can be
grouped into types.
The following sections describe these parameter types.

Required Parameters

The parameters in the following table are required in every request.
Parameter
Service
AWSAccessKeyId
SubscriptionId
AssociateTag
Operation
Requests
Value
AWSECommerceService
Your Amazon-assigned
Access Key ID
Your Amazon-assigned
subscription ID
An Amazon-assigned
Associate ID
Operation you wish to
perform, for example,
ItemLookup
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75
Description
Specifies the Product Advertising API service
To register for an Access Key ID from the Amazon
Web site, go to http://aws.amazon.com. Every
Product Advertising API 4.0 request must contain
either an Access Key ID or a Subscription ID but
not both.
Every Product Advertising API 4.0 request must
contain either an Access Key ID or a Subscription
ID but not both. Starting with version 2005-10-05,
Product Advertising API stopped distributing
Subscription IDs. If you already have one, it will
continue to work.
The AssociateTag enables product URLs
returned by Product Advertising API to be tagged
as originating from your Associates website. For
your requesst to work and to receive a referral
credit for a sale, you must include an AssociateTag
value in all your requests. Be sure to specify the
value correctly; no error is generated for incorrect
values.
One of the Product Advertising API operation types.