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How to Use Python Requests to Login With Amazon & Access the Advertising API Token

As a data scientist or software engineer, you may often need to interact with APIs for data extraction or automation. Amazon provides a vast range of APIs, one of which is the Advertising API. To interact with this API, we need to fetch an Access Token first. In this tutorial, we’ll walk through the steps of using Python’s Requests library to log in with Amazon and retrieve this token.
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How to Use Python Requests to Login With Amazon & Access the Advertising API Token

As a data scientist or software engineer, you may often need to interact with APIs for data extraction or automation. Amazon provides a vast range of APIs, one of which is the Advertising API. To interact with this API, we need to fetch an Access Token first. In this tutorial, we’ll walk through the steps of using Python’s Requests library to log in with Amazon and retrieve this token.

What is the Amazon Advertising API?

The Amazon Advertising API provides a way to automate, scale, and optimize advertising. Advertisers can develop their own applications using this API to manage campaigns, pull reports, manage bids, and much more.

Prerequisites

Before we get started, make sure to install the Python Requests library, if you haven’t already:

pip install requests

Step 1: Obtain Credentials From Amazon

First, you need to get your client_id and client_secret from Amazon. These are unique credentials that Amazon uses to authenticate your application. Visit the Amazon Developer Services page, sign in with your Amazon account, and follow their instructions to obtain these credentials.

Step 2: Create a Login Function with Python Requests

We’ll create a Python function to automate the login process. This function will use your client_id and client_secret to authenticate and log in to Amazon.

import requests

def amazon_login(client_id, client_secret):
    url = "https://api.amazon.com/auth/o2/token"
    payload = {
        "grant_type": "client_credentials",
        "client_id": client_id,
        "client_secret": client_secret,
        "scope": "cpc_advertising:campaign_management"
    }
    response = requests.post(url, data=payload)
    
    if response.status_code == 200:
        return response.json()["access_token"]
    else:
        return None

In the payload dictionary, grant_type is set to client_credentials as we’re using the Client Credentials Grant type. The scope is set to cpc_advertising:campaign_management which is the scope for the Amazon Advertising API.

Step 3: Retrieve the Access Token

With the function in place, we can now retrieve the access token as follows:

token = amazon_login(YOUR_CLIENT_ID, YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET)

Remember to replace YOUR_CLIENT_ID and YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET with your actual credentials.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we’ve learned how to use Python Requests to log in with Amazon and retrieve an access token for the Amazon Advertising API. This token is crucial for making authenticated requests to the API, allowing you to extract data and perform various operations on Amazon’s advertising platform programmatically.

Happy coding!

Keywords: Python Requests, Amazon Login, Amazon Advertising API, Access Token, Client Credentials, API Authentication

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