nprapps/book-concierge

Add Amazon Product API search

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This is in progress. Changing this description in order to track tasks:

  • Integrate the task for hitting the API
  • Add CSV output for merging in sheets, including a column with confidence level
  • Add a sub-task for downloading any missing covers from the API
  • Check whether this can replace additional scraping we're currently doing (i.e., Goodreads)

Looks like there are a couple of hoops we'll need to jump through to access the API, the most difficult of which is having made actual sales: https://prosociate.com/amazons-new-api-policy/. (I tried creating a new Amazon Associates account and wasn't able to request access.)

Oh, fun. We may be able to reach out to Amazon about that, I'll check.