[Koha] Amazon Reviews not displaying

[Chris Morrison]

To the best of my knowledge, the associate key and the private key are both
correct. I also have the secret key set up as well. Still no reviews or
"Look Inside" (although, again, I do get the image on the detailed view;
that didn't work until I had got the keys right).

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 7:46 PM, <m.mason at ytu.edu.au> wrote:

>  Amazon now requires the SECRET /Private key for all except covers. But
> there does not seem to be a Koha System preference for this until version
> 3.2.
>
> From Koha 3.2 manual:
>
>
>
>
> *Why do I need a AWSPrivateKey for Amazon Content?*This FAQ applies to:
> 3.2
> Why do I need the AWSPrivateKey as well as the AWSAccessKeyID to use Amazon
> Content?
>
> After 2009-08-15, Amazon Web Services will expect that all requests to the
> Product Advertising API, which is what Koha uses for retrieving reviews and
> other enhanced content from Amazon, include signatures.  This patch and
> subsequenct patches implement this functionality.
>
> What this means in practice (assuming the user has elected to use any
> enhanced content from Amazon) is that
>
>    1. The user must get a Amazon Secret Access Key.  This can be done by
>    logging in to the user's AWS account at (e.g.) http://aws.amazon.com/,
>    going to the 'Access Identifiers' page, and from there retrieving and/or
>    creating a new Secret Access Key.
>    2. The contents of the Secret Access Key should then be entered into
>    the new AWSPrivateKey system preference.
>
>
> Once that is done, grabbing reviews and table of contents from Amazon
> should work as normal.  If the user doesn't do this before 2009-08-15,
> reviews and TOCs will no longer be supplied from Amazon, although there
> should be no crashes - the content will simply not show up.
>
> Note that the requirement to sign requests does *NOT* appear to apply to
> simply displaying book covers from Amazon.
>
>
> At Saturday 13/02/2010, you wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Do you have appropriate values for both AWSAccessKeyID and
> AWSPrivateKey? I think covers without reviews is symptomatic of a
> missing AWSPrivateKey.
>
> Regards,
> Magnus Enger
> libriotech.no
>
> 2010/2/12 Chris Morrison <cmm1005 at gmail.com>:
> > Our recent upgrade to 3.0.05 went smoothly (thanks for helping us with
> the
> > label problem we had), and pretty much everything works now except the
> > Amazon reviews. We get jacket covers both in the results page and
> detailed
> > views, but the reviews tab isn't displaying. Further, when we click the
> > image in the detailed view, we get a "page not found" error. For example,
> > see this record:
> >
> > http://koha.lru.edu/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=76740
> >
> > But the image tries to take you to this page:
> >
> >
> http://www.amazon/gp/reader/0805447857/ref=sib_dp_pt/002-7879865-0184864#reader-link
> >
> > Which obviously doesn't work. Actually, it looks like it would need to go
> > to:
> >
> >
> http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Cockroaches-Scattered-Musings-Leadership/dp/0805447857/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1265986313&sr=8-1#reader_0805447857
> >
> > Associate tags and AWS key are both filled in and it looks like all
> > appropriate switches are turned on (AmazonContent, AmazonSimilarItems,
> > OPACAmazonContent, OPACSimilarItmes). I searched the lists and didn't see
> > this answered yet--just one person who couldn't get the covers to display
> > and needed a patch (for 3.0.04).
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
>
>  Michael Mason
> Librarian & Director of I.T.
> Redemptorist Seminary Library
> 10 Majella Ct.
> Kew, Vic. 3101
>
> Phone: +61 3 9817 9758
> Fax:     +61 3 9816 9805
> Email: M.Mason at ytu.edu.au
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.katipo.co.nz/pipermail/koha/attachments/20100212/8682b252/attachment.htm