# Amazon.co.uk WebServices

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/amazon-co-uk-webservices/10391
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 5, 2010, 2:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/amazon-co-uk-webservices/10391 "2010-05-05T14:56:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![nickh](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/7ea924/32.png) [@nickh](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/nickh)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2010, 2:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/amazon-co-uk-webservices/10391/1 "2010-05-05T14:56:39Z")

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Hi I've installed to the latest version 2.46a and i've always used the [webservices.Amazon.co.uk](http://webservices.Amazon.co.uk) for tags.

When trying to use the service within the application i get a 403 error. Wireshare shows the following TCP transaction:

------------- TX -------------------------------  
GET /onca/xml?AWSAccessKey=045ZGZ60B4A7NQEJRMR2&AWSAccessKeyId=0M5JPBJQ7TVDPPAYJ8R2&ItemPage=1&Keywords=Defamation%20of%20Strickland%20Banks&Operation=ItemSearch&ResponseGroup=ItemAttributes%2CSmall&SearchIndex=Music&Service=AWSECommerceService&Timestamp=2010-05-05T16%3A44%3A46Z&Version=2009-07-01&Signature=6Cx6GnjDOQECYx%2BTEF1N%2B0BGwL3oAE9O2uWOCiRCHHw%3D HTTP/1.1

Host: [webservices.Amazon.co.uk](http://webservices.Amazon.co.uk)

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible)

Accept:_/_

Accept-Encoding: gzip

------------- RX -------------------------------  
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden  
Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 16:44:33 GMT  
Server: Server  
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent  
Content-Encoding: gzip  
Content-Length: 307  
nnCoection: close  
Content-Type: text/plain

I have tried my earlier version of mp3tag v2.44 and [webservices.amazon.co.uk](http://webservices.amazon.co.uk) still works.

[webservices.amazon.com](http://webservices.amazon.com) works fine..

Anythoughts?

Thanks

Nick

ps this is the header of the amazon.co.uk.src file

[Name]=[Amazon.co.uk](http://Amazon.co.uk)  
[BasedOn]=http://webservices.Amazon.co.uk  
[IndexUrl]=http://webservices.Amazon.co.uk/onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService&Operation=ItemSearch&SearchIndex=Music&Keywords=%s&ItemPage=1&ResponseGroup=ItemAttributes,Small  
[AlbumUrl]=http://webservices.Amazon.co.uk/onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService&AWSAccessKey=045ZGZ60B4A7NQEJRMR2&Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId  
[WordSeperator]=%20  
[IndexFormat]=%\_url%|%\_preview%|%Artist%|%Publisher%|%Released%|%Album%  
[SearchBy]=%album%

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### Author: ![nickh](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/7ea924/32.png) [@nickh](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/nickh)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2010, 3:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/amazon-co-uk-webservices/10391/2 "2010-05-05T15:19:25Z")

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Well it looks i've addressed this problem by using my amazon.co.uk.src from my other PC, using MP3Tag v2.44

The headers are:

[Name]=[Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com)  
[BasedOn]=http://webservices.amazon.co.uk  
[IndexUrl]=http://webservices.amazon.co.uk/onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService&AWSAccessKeyId=045ZGZ60B4A7NQEJRMR2&Operation=ItemSearch&SearchIndex=Music&Keywords=%s&ItemPage=1&ResponseGroup=ItemAttributes,Small  
[AlbumUrl]=http://webservices.amazon.co.uk/onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService&AWSAccessKeyId=045ZGZ60B4A7NQEJRMR2&Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId  
[WordSeperator]=%20  
[IndexFormat]=%\_url%|%\_preview%|%Artist%|%Publisher%|%Released%|%Album%  
[SearchBy]=%album%

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### Author: ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2010, 3:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/amazon-co-uk-webservices/10391/3 "2010-05-05T15:24:10Z")

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Try the the script from here  
[/t/1681/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/1681/1)  
I've removed some outdated stuff from it.

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### Author: ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/amazon-co-uk-webservices/10391/4 "2026-02-09T12:22:22Z")

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