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DO NOT USE THIS TAG. Instead, use a more-specific tag, such as `amazon-web-services` or `amazon-product-api`. Amazon is a US-based multinational e-commerce company. If you have a programming-related question specific to one of their services, use that specific tag instead (if there is one).

Amazon.com LLC is the world's largest online retailer, headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Amazon.com also offers storage solutions, messaging solutions, streaming solutions and remote database solutions through its Amazon Web Services platform.

Amazon.com is also the creator of Kindle, a family of e-book readers.

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fs.writeFile in a promise, asynchronous-synchronous stuff

I need some help with my code. I'm new at Node.js and have a lot of trouble with it. What I'm trying to do: 1) Fetch a .txt with Amazon products (ASINs) ; 2) Fetch all products using the amazon-product-api package; 3) Save each product in a .json…
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How can I lookup data about a book from its barcode number?

I'm building the world's simplest library application. All I want to be able to do is scan in a book's UPC (barcode) using a typical scanner (which just types the numbers of the barcode into a field) and then use it to look up data about the book...…
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What does amazon aws mean by "network performance"?

When choosing an amazon aws instance type to launch, there is a property of each type which is "Network Performance" which is either "Low", "Moderate", or "High". I'm wondering what this exactly means. Will my ping be lower if I choose low? Or will…
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How do I delete an object on AWS S3 using Javascript?

I want to delete a file from Amazon S3 using Javascript. I have already uploaded the file using Javascript. Any ideas?
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How does one find prices from Amazon's site programmatically?

So Amazon has lots of different APIs for different things, and it's hard to find the one I'm looking for. I have a client that sells things and checks Amazon's lowest price to know where to price their things (slightly under the lowest thing there).…
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How to join tables in AWS DynamoDB?

I know the whole design should be based on natural aggregates (documents), however I'm thinking to implement a separate table for localisations (lang, key, text) and then use keys in other tables. However, I was unable to find any example on doing…
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Amazon API library for Python?

What Python libraries do folks use for querying Amazon product data? (Amazon Associates Web Service - used to be called E-Commerce API, or something along those lines). Based on my research, PyAWS seems okay, but still pretty raw (and hasn't been…
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Find key/value pairs deep inside a hash containing an arbitrary number of nested hashes and arrays

A web service is returning a hash that contains an unknown number of nested hashes, some of which contain an array, which in turn contains an unknown number of nested hashes. Some of the keys are not unique -- i.e. are present in more than one of…
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Get Kindle Library Book List

Does anyone know of a way to programmaticly get a list of books from a user's Amazon Kindle Library? I would like to build a service for lending books. Ideally users would be able to export a list of books they are willing to lend without having…
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AWS S3 Java SDK - Download file help

The code below only works for downloading text files from a bucket in S3. This does not work for an image. Is there an easier way to manage downloads/types using the AWS SDK? The example included in the documentation does not make it apparent. …
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Amazon MWS sandbox

I intend to develop a client for Amazon's Marketplace webservices (MWS). My requirements would be to update the order, synchronize the order status, get the order details using the APIs they have. However, I could not find a Sandbox environment to…
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Amazon EC2 Elastic Load Balancer: Does its IP ever Change?

Does the ELB's IP Ever Change once setup, or will it always access instances from the same location during its lifetime no matter what might be going on with it behind the scenes at Amazon?
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lxml runtime error: Reason: Incompatible library version: etree.so requires version 12.0.0 or later, but libxml2.2.dylib provides version 10.0.0

I have a perplexing problem. I have used mac version 10.9, anaconda 3.4.1, python 2.7.6. Developing web application with python-amazon-product-api. i have overcome an obstacle about installing lxml, referencing clang error: unknown argument:…
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Amazon Product Advertising API : How to get a JSON response for ItemLookup/Search

I'm trying to get the details of Amazon product from its ASIN. The product API allows to do a Itemlookup with ASIN, but the return value is in XML. I want to do this call for Itemlookup from client side, so would like to do a JSONP call, which I…
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Notification of new S3 objects

I have a scenario where we have many clients uploading to s3. What is the best approach to knowing that there is a new file? Is it realistic/good idea, for me to poll the bucket ever few seconds?
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