[Net-amazon-devel] Patch to append AssiciateTag

[Martin M. <ma...@ch...>]

Hi all,

Amazon has an Affiliates/Associates program which allows you to
receive credit for clicks followed through to Amazon. It is possible
to have Amazon automatically generate links for you with your Amazon
Associates tracking ID attached, but to do so you must append an
AssociateTag attribute to your original request. I am currently doing
a string replacement in the URLs Amazon returns to insert my tracking
id in place of the default one they return.

I have attached a patch which takes 'tracking_id' as a new constructor
hash option and (if present) appends it to the Amazon request as the
'AssociateTag' parameter. I have updated the documentation as well to
reflect the change.

For more info about this, check out
http://affiliate-program.amazon.com (the program website). This is
mentioned specifically in the 'best practices' guide for the Product
Advertising API
(http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=1057).
It is documented in the Product Advertising API Developer Guild
(http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=3426&categoryID=19).
You can find it on page 88 of the PDF in a section titled "General,
Optional Parameters".

I hope this patch is useful and that I didn't just overlook this
functionality in the module... Please CC me on responses b/c I'm not
signed up for the list.

Thanks,
Martin Meyer