We can use the bottlenose library that implements the Amazon's product search APIs.

Listing 7.6 gives the code for searching Amazon for books through product search APIs, as shown:

#!/usr/bin/env python 
# Python Network Programming Cookbook, Second Edition -- Chapter - 7 
# This program is optimized for Python 2.7.12 and Python 3.5.2. 
# It may run on any other version with/without modifications. 
# Supply the Amazon Access and Secret Keys via local_settings.py 
 
import argparse 
import bottlenose 
from xml.dom import minidom as xml 
 
try: 
    from local_settings import amazon_account 
except ImportError: 
    pass  
 
ACCESS_KEY = amazon_account['access_key']  
SECRET_KEY = amazon_account['secret_key']  
AFFILIATE_ID = amazon_account['affiliate_id']  
 
 
def search_for_books(tag, index): 
    """Search Amazon for Books """ 
    amazon = bottlenose.Amazon(ACCESS_KEY, SECRET_KEY, AFFILIATE_ID) 
    results = amazon.ItemSearch( 
                SearchIndex = index, 
                Sort = "relevancerank", 
                Keywords = tag 
                ) 
    parsed_result = xml.parseString(results) 
 
    all_items = [] 
    attrs = ['Title','Author', 'URL'] 
 
    for item in parsed_result.getElementsByTagName('Item'): 
        parse_item = {} 
 
        for attr in attrs: 
            parse_item[attr] = "" 
            try: 
                parse_item[attr] = item.getElementsByTagName(attr)
                                   [0].childNodes[0].data 
            except: 
                pass 
        all_items.append(parse_item) 
    return all_items 
 
if __name__ == '__main__': 
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Search
              info from Amazon') 
    parser.add_argument('--tag', action="store",
     dest="tag", default='Python') 
    parser.add_argument('--index', action="store",
     dest="index", default='Books') 
    # parse arguments 
    given_args = parser.parse_args() 
    books = search_for_books(given_args.tag, given_args.index)     
     
    for book in books: 
        for k,v in book.iteritems(): 
            print ("%s: %s" %(k,v)) 
        print ("-" * 80) 
 

If you run this recipe with a search tag and index, you can see some results similar to the following output:

$ python 7_6_search_amazon_for_books.py --tag=Python --index=Books
URL: http://www.amazon.com/Python-In-Day-Basics-Coding/dp/tech-data/1490475575%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAIPPW3IK76PBRLWBA%26tag%3D7052-6929-7878%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D386001%26creativeASIN%3D1490475575
Author: Richard Wagstaff
Title: Python In A Day: Learn The Basics, Learn It Quick, Start Coding Fast (In A Day Books) (Volume 1)
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URL: http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Python-Mark-Lutz/dp/tech-data/1449355730%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAIPPW3IK76PBRLWBA%26tag%3D7052-6929-7878%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D386001%26creativeASIN%3D1449355730
Author: Mark Lutz
Title: Learning Python
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URL: http://www.amazon.com/Python-Programming-Introduction-Computer-Science/dp/tech-data/1590282418%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAIPPW3IK76PBRLWBA%26tag%3D7052-6929-7878%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D386001%26creativeASIN%3D1590282418
Author: John Zelle
Title: Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science 2nd Edition
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