Problem in Amazon review integration?
I wonder if it is a problem with my installation only, or a more generic one: It seems that Amazon review integration may not work. I noticed that no Amazon reviews appear, at all. In the following example, koha can match the book in koha with a book in Amazon (US), as it can retrieve a book cover from Amazon: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/22465174/20120823_koha_2.gif Koha reports though that there are no reviews in Amazon, whereas in page http://www.amazon.com/Picture-History-United-States-Maritime/dp/0486428397/r ef=sr_1_1?s=books <http://www.amazon.com/Picture-History-United-States-Maritime/dp/0486428397/ ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345734417&sr=1-1&keywords=0486428397> &ie=UTF8&qid=1345734417&sr=1-1&keywords=0486428397 eight reviews appear. The ISBN number of my example is the same in koha and Amazon. I'm in koha 3.08.04.000. Manos Petridis
I wonder if it is a problem with my installation only, or a more generic one: It seems that Amazon review integration may not work.
You're right, it doesn't work. Amazon changed their API as well as the terms under which it can be used. Koha has never been updated to work with the changed API. The only Amazon integration that works is book cover images because they don't require API access. -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Owen Leonard <oleonard@myacpl.org> wrote:
I wonder if it is a problem with my installation only, or a more generic one: It seems that Amazon review integration may not work.
You're right, it doesn't work. Amazon changed their API as well as the terms under which it can be used. Koha has never been updated to work with the changed API.
I have submitted a patch removing the non-functional Amazon features: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=8679 -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org
I believe the Amazon API has changed for reviews in a way that either prohibits our usage or breaks it somehow, and the feature has not yet been pulled out or fixed. See: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5568 Liz Rea NEKLS On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Manos PETRIDIS <egpetridis@yahoo.com>wrote:
I wonder if it is a problem with my installation only, or a more generic one: It seems that Amazon review integration may not work.
I noticed that no Amazon reviews appear, at all. In the following example, koha can match the book in koha with a book in Amazon (US), as it can retrieve a book cover from Amazon: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/22465174/20120823_koha_2.gif Koha reports though that there are no reviews in Amazon, whereas in page
http://www.amazon.com/Picture-History-United-States-Maritime/dp/0486428397/r ef=sr_1_1?s=books<http://www.amazon.com/Picture-History-United-States-Maritime/dp/0486428397/r%0Aef=sr_1_1?s=books> < http://www.amazon.com/Picture-History-United-States-Maritime/dp/0486428397/ ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345734417&sr=1-1&keywords=0486428397<http://www.amazon.com/Picture-History-United-States-Maritime/dp/0486428397/%0Aref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345734417&sr=1-1&keywords=0486428397>
&ie=UTF8&qid=1345734417&sr=1-1&keywords=0486428397
eight reviews appear. The ISBN number of my example is the same in koha and Amazon.
I'm in koha 3.08.04.000.
Manos Petridis
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