Getting landing price from amazon API

Question

I've been using the Amazon Product API in Python via this client.

However, I want to get the "landing price" for a given product - the price that Amazon displays prominently, the most competitive price when taking into account both the base price and delivery price. For example if a product has 2 offers such as $1 + $5 delivery vs $3 Free delivery, the landing price would be the $3 and be shown prominently by Amazon as it's the most competitive.

If I use the OfferSummary ResponseGroup of the Amazon Product API, doing response = amazon.lookup(ItemId=asin, ResponseGroup='OfferSummary'), then I get a response like

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Item xmlns="http://webservices.amazon.com/AWSECommerceService/2013-08-01">
  <ASIN>B072KHRPLF</ASIN>
  <ParentASIN>B07CJ6DNF4</ParentASIN>
  <OfferSummary>
    <LowestNewPrice>
      <Amount>7723</Amount>
      <CurrencyCode>GBP</CurrencyCode>
      <FormattedPrice>&#xA3;77.23</FormattedPrice>
    </LowestNewPrice>
    <TotalNew>2</TotalNew>
    <TotalUsed>0</TotalUsed>
    <TotalCollectible>0</TotalCollectible>
    <TotalRefurbished>0</TotalRefurbished>
  </OfferSummary>
</Item>

for this product, which has a landing price of £92.08 Free delivery and another offer price of £77.23 + £17.50 delivery (£94.73 in total, and hence not the most competitive and not the landing price, despite having the lowest base price)

As far as I can tell I'd need to use the Amazon MWS API and call the GetCompetitivePricingForASIN endpoint perhaps, but I believe this needs a $40/month seller account.

Is there any other way to get the landing price? or anyway to do it via the Product API?

Answer 1

This is not possible from PAPI. You either need MWS API, or you can use other free/cheaper third-party alternatives if you just need the landing price.

We use the amazon-price API from RapidAPI, it supports price/rating/review count fetching for up to 1000 products in a single request.