bottlenose

How to fix HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable error

Executing the command:

amazon = bottlenose.Amazon(AMAZON_ACCESS_KEY,AMAZON_SECRET_KEY,AMAZON_ASSOC_TAG)
response = amazon.ItemLookup(ItemId='B007OZNUCE')

I got the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "exazapi.py", line 37, in <module>
    response = amazon.ItemLookup(ItemId='B007OZNUCE')
  File "C:\Python\lib\site-packages\bottlenose\api.py", line 274, in __call__
    {'api_url': api_url, 'cache_url': cache_url})
  File "C:\Python\lib\site-packages\bottlenose\api.py", line 235, in _call_api
    return urllib2.urlopen(api_request, timeout=self.Timeout)
  File "C:\Python\lib\urllib\request.py", line 222, in urlopen
    return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "C:\Python\lib\urllib\request.py", line 531, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "C:\Python\lib\urllib\request.py", line 641, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "C:\Python\lib\urllib\request.py", line 569, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "C:\Python\lib\urllib\request.py", line 503, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "C:\Python\lib\urllib\request.py", line 649, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable

#import all the required modules
import re
import csv
import sys
import warnings
from urllib.request import urlopen
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from requests_html import HTMLSession

import bottlenose
#from amazon.api import AmazonAPI

AMAZON_ACCESS_KEY='xxx'
AMAZON_SECRET_KEY='xxx'
AMAZON_ASSOC_TAG='xxx'


#ignore warnings
if not sys.warnoptions:
    warnings.simplefilter("ignore")


amazon = bottlenose.Amazon(AMAZON_ACCESS_KEY,AMAZON_SECRET_KEY,AMAZON_ASSOC_TAG)
response = amazon.ItemLookup(ItemId='B007OZNUCE')
print (amazon)
print(response)
Solution

  • Region is missing, add something like "DE" or "ES" depending on the country you're using.

    Default is 'US':

    amazon = bottlenose.Amazon(AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_ASSOCIATE_TAG, Region='FR')

    from: https://github.com/lionheart/bottlenose

    Additionally: have you checked in the 'amazon' customer portal, on the 'platform API' access for the countries you want to use, that the API is enabled?

    For me, it shows inactive, hence, that's probably the cause for the request to be denied.