Amazon Web Services/Album Artwork

Diogo

Have someone tried to work with Amazon Web Services to get the album artwork?

I get some VB codes and I figuring out some way to translate to netlinx?

You only need the dock reponse have Artist and/or music name...

It gives a .XML with the image URL. ]

It's a shame AMX haven't developed one module for this. (Obs: i got some information there is some C* modules that uses this way for their ipod dock's)


I've seen the HTTP request and is something like this

http://webservices.amazon.com/onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService&Version=2005-03-23&Operation=ItemSearch&SubscriptionId=[YOUR AMAZON ID ]&AssociateTag=[YOUR AMAZON KEY]&SearchIndex=Music&Artist=[QUERY PARAMETERS]&ResponseGroup=Images

You need to sign up to get your AMAZON ID and AMAZON KEY, at http://aws.amazon.com/
the QUERY PARAMETERS are the music and artist.

but still there is something going wrong, probably amazon change something and the request don't work (the code that I get was developed in 2004)

So if anyone know the request that is needed, please share.


Ok guys so let's try making this thing work!

Dries Kaspers

Amazon has changed the way the query should be constructed in august 2009. You now have to supply a rather complex checksum (SHA1 hash) at the end of your request, they call it 'signed requests'. I tried to code it in netlinx but was unable to build such a function.

I resorted to using www.apisigning.com. You supply the unsigned request and it returns the signed URL. Works pretty fast.

Diogo

Thanks,

The apisigning should work .

But for Sha1 checksum, probably exists a java code for that, then could be possible create a duet module for this checksum.