Liquid tag to show amazon product previews (with locally cached images) in blog posts

gem install vacuum hash_dot

Add jekyll_amazon_product_tag.rb to your _plugins folder.

1. Create a new products directory in your jekyll root path.
2. Add an empty products.yml file to it.

Product images will be downloaded to this folder

Add your AWS credentials to your _config.yml

amazon_product:
  aws_access_key_id: 'ACCESS_KEY_ID'
  aws_secret_access_key: 'SECRET_ACCESS_KEY'
  associate_tag: 'ASSOCIATE_TAG'

Liquid Tag:

{% amazon_product AMAZON_ID %}

If the URL is https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Object-Oriented-Design-Ruby-Addison-Wesley/dp/0321721330/ then 0321721330 will be the AMAZON_ID.