/2011/11/18/amazon-api-breakage/
{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2011\/11\/18\/amazon-api-breakage\/","trash":"","name":"amazon-api-breakage","parent":"","title":"Amazon Product Advertising API Update","date":"2011-11-18 15:42:03","filepath":"posts\/2000806_amazon-api-breakage.xml.json","type":"post","content":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.poptoken.com\"><img class=\"alignnone\" title=\"poptoken\" src=\"http:\/\/www.poptoken.com\/img\/logo.png\" alt=\"poptoken\" width=\"91\" height=\"23\" \/><\/a>\n\nIt took me about 18 days to discover that Amazon changed the Product Advertising API by adding a new requirement to each request. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.poptoken.com\/\">Poptoken.com<\/a> was down for a long time. \u00a0Embarrassing.\n\nAfter digging this error popped up:\n<blockquote>\"Your request is missing required parameters. Required parameters include AssociateTag.\"<\/blockquote>\nAssociateTag... hmm....\n\nAfter more sleuthing I determined what the Associate Tag (aka Associate ID) is. \u00a0It is the generated account name linked to your Product Advertising API.\n\nSo, once you sign in, you'll see on the page \"Signed in as\" with a name below it. \u00a0That is your Associate Tag. \u00a0In many cases your Associate Tag will be the same as your Tracking ID.\n\nTo get things working again, just put an \"AssociateTag\" parameter in your aws request before signing it.\n\nNow you can send music songs and mp3's to friends as a gift with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poptoken.com\/\">PopToken<\/a>."}}
