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<title>Amazon Product Advertising API - Signed Requests Sample Code - Perl</title>
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<h2>About this Sample</h2>
<ul>
	<li>Based on the 2009-03-31 API version.</li>
	<li>This sample shows how to send an authenticated REST request to the Amazon Product Advertising API using Perl</li>
</ul>

<h2>Prerequisites</h2>
<ul>
	<li>
	    <b>Amazon Product Advertising API Account</b> (<a href="http://associates.amazon.com/gp/advertising/api/detail/main.html">http://associates.amazon.com/gp/advertising/api/detail/main.html/</a>).
	</li>
	<li>Perl version 5.8.8 or later</li>
	<li>The following Perl Modules:
	    <ol>
		<li>Data::Dumper <a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Data::Dumper">http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Data::Dumper</a></li>
		<li>Digest::SHA  <a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Digest::SHA" >http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Digest::SHA </a></li>
		<li>URI::Escape  <a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?URI::Escape" >http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?URI::Escape </a></li>
		<li>LWP::Simple  <a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?LWP::Simple" >http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?LWP::Simple </a></li>
		<li>XML::Simple  <a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?XML::Simple" >http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?XML::Simple </a></li>
	    </ol>
	</li>
</ul>

<h2>Reference Documentation</h2>
<ul>
	<li><a href="http://associates.amazon.com/gp/advertising/api/detail/main.html/">Online Reference
	Documentation</a></li>
</ul>

<h2>Quick Start</h2>
Sample comes with a Perl Module with the signature logic and a Perl script that uses the module to perform a simple ItemLookup operation.
To get started with the sample, follow these steps:
<ol>
	<li>Ensure the pre-requisite Perl Modules are installed and usable</li>
	<li>Log in to the AWS portal at <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/">http://aws.amazon.com/</a> and copy your AWS Access Key ID and your AWS Secret Key. 
	    You can find them under the Your Account -&gt; Access Identifiers menu after you log in.</li>
	<li>Extract the <strong>amazon-product-advt-api-sample-perl-query.zip</strong> file into a working directory.</li>
	<li>Open the <strong>SignedRequestSample.pl</strong> file in an editor and change the <tt>myAWSId</tt> and <tt>myAWSSecret</tt> values
	    to match the ones you obtained from AWS.
	<li>
	    Run the script:
	    <pre>
    ./SignedRequestSample.pl
	    </pre>
	    Or,
	    <pre>
    ./SignedRequestSample.pl [insert ASIN here]
	    </pre>
	</li>
</ol>


<h2>Comments, Questions or Feedback</h2>
If you have any comments, questions or feedback on the library, please visit the
<a href="http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/forum.jspa?forumID=9">Amazon
Amazon Product Advertising API discussion forums</a>.
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