Welcome to Product Advertising API 5.0
Topics
- Overview of Product Advertising API
- What's New in Product Advertising API 5.0
- Audience
- Required Knowledge and Skills
Overview of Product Advertising API
Amazon has developed a world-class web service that millions of customers use every day. As a developer, you can build Product Advertising API applications that leverage this robust, scalable, and reliable technology. You get access to a lot of the data used by Amazon including the items for sale, customer reviews, seller reviews, as well as most of the functionality you see on Amazon.com, such as finding items, displaying customer reviews, and product promotions. Product Advertising API operations open the doors to Amazon's databases so that you can take advantage of Amazon's sophisticated e-commerce data and functionality.
Best of all, Product Advertising API is free. By signing up to become a Product Advertising API developer, you join the tens of thousands of developers who are already realizing financial gains by creating Product Advertising API-driven applications and web stores.
Audience
This guide is intended for developers who want to build an e-commerce storefront that sells items listed on Amazon.com, or an application that helps others build e-commerce storefronts.
Required Knowledge and Skills
Use of this guide assumes you are familiar with the following:
JSON (For an overview, see W3 Schools JSON Introduction.)
Basic understanding of HTTP Methods, specifically POST as Product Advertising API uses POST (For an overview, see HTTP Methods)
Basic understanding of web services (For an overview, see JSON Web Services.)
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