I dont want to use a cookie cutter affiliate script, because I need to be able to pull Amazon links based on a search that might be random, so I won't know in advance what the link will be. I know it has to do with AWS, but their documents are so huge I can't figure it all out just to get a simple idea. Do I have to pay Amazon to do a search in their product database to pull out the link I need?
No you don't need to pay Amazon to pull the information from there API. If you are using the API, providing your Amazon Tag (or affiliate id or whatever) will automatically put it into the links you get returned. Also, if you are using the remote shopping cart functionality then it will also be automatically inserted. From what I gather your building an application using AWS, but if you are putting together links from a list of ASINs then you can insert the tag manually and build a link yourself. Hoep that makes sense and helps you out. There are some Amazon Scripts that allow you to search for products in a detailed way, and also let you only add the products you want...
Thanks. Do you have a link to the API or know what its called? They have a ton things listed and its not easy to tell what is what.