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Making Requests
A request is a way of asking Product Advertising API to do something for you. For example, you might ask Product Advertising API to return information about a product category or about a single item. You might request that Product Advertising API return pictures of items for sale, or what other customers thought of them, or how much they cost. Product Advertising API enables you to ask these questions by sending requests over the Internet using REST or SOAP. Product Advertising API answers your request by returning an XML document.
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Processing responses is discussed in the next section. |
The following sections describe how to make a Product Advertising API request using multiple programming languages:
