Title: Does Amazon API update effect Amazon Link Plugin?
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Does Amazon API update effect Amazon Link Plugin?

 *  [Deranged_Dev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deranged_dev/)
 * (@deranged_dev)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-amazon-api-update-effect-amazon-link-plugin/)
 * I got an email today with subject: “Important: Amazon Product Advertising API”
 * I wondered if this would effect this plugin in any way? Here’s a little excerpt:
 * > Dear Associate,
   > We have an important update for you regarding the Amazon Product Advertising
   > API.
   > Certificate Authorities (CAs) and companies such as Google and Microsoft are
   > retiring support for SHA1 as a hashing algorithm used to sign SSL/TLS certificates(
   > for more information, please read the CA/Browser Forum post). Because of this,
   > the Amazon Product Advertising API will also be retiring use of SHA1 for digital
   > signatures in SSL/TLS certificates and will be upgrading to SHA256 by October
   > 09, 2015. This means that customers accessing the Product Advertising API via
   > HTTPS will need to make sure they’re using the latest certificate bundles on
   > their client machines.
 * Tbh, I actually don’t understand a word it says 😛
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/amazon-link/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/amazon-link/)

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 *  Plugin Author [paulstuttard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulstuttard/)
 * (@paulstuttard)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-amazon-api-update-effect-amazon-link-plugin/#post-6609845)
 * Hi,
 * The plugin will work fine after the change on the 9th October (it is already 
   using the appropriate encryption (SHA256)).
 * I’ve tested it against the temporary API Amazon provided – just to be sure, and
   it worked fine. But let me know if you have any problems though!
 * Paul
 *  [solvaman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/solvaman/)
 * (@solvaman)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-amazon-api-update-effect-amazon-link-plugin/#post-6610012)
 * Hi Paul, does this Plug in dynamically update price and stock information from
   Amazon at all? I have previously used Plug ins which successfully down load product
   information from Amazon, but do not update the price changes/stock updates made
   by the retailer on Amazon.
 * Thanks
 *  Thread Starter [Deranged_Dev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deranged_dev/)
 * (@deranged_dev)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-amazon-api-update-effect-amazon-link-plugin/#post-6610016)
 * I’m not entirely sure but I think prices are updated every 24hours. For most 
   products the prices are correct and change (not dynamically but after a little
   delay) as the retailer changes the price.
 * For some products the prices are wrong (it simply shows the MRP without any discounts
   etc.). For some they appear as “Too low to display”.
 * In most cases (60%) I find them to correct and updated. For about 25% cases I
   find them saying “Too low to display”. The remaining 15% are incorrect.
 *  [solvaman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/solvaman/)
 * (@solvaman)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-amazon-api-update-effect-amazon-link-plugin/#post-6610017)
 * In that case what work arounds can be implemented to those 25% and 15%
 * Cheers

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 * Last reply from: [solvaman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/solvaman/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-amazon-api-update-effect-amazon-link-plugin/#post-6610017)
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