amazon-web-services

Creating a shorten URL for products using Amazon advertising API


I'm using Amazon's API to browse for some products and I would like to generate an affiliate link for some of them.

I know I can get a normal affiliate link from the DetailPageURL field in the response (and that I can create one manually following the affiliate link format) but I would like to find an automated way to create a shorten URL for a product that contains my tag.

2 technical notes:


Solution

  • Apparently this can be done using bit.y's API, as every Amazon URL shortened by bit.ly will get the amzn.to/{unique_id} format.