Alexa Top Sites - Making Requests

Sign up for an Amazon AWS account at https://aws.amazon.com/.

Create an IAM user

Create a Customer Managed Policy

1. Select the JSON tab in the Policy Editor

2. If the following message box appears, you may safely close it. We are working to remove this false warning message.

   

3. Paste the following in the editor window.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "AlexaTopSites:GET"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
                              

4. Click Review Policy. In the Review Policy window, assign a Name to the policy and Click Create Policy.

   The following warning message can be safely ignored.

   
   
   

Assign the previous execution policy for the service to the user created above.

Get the IAM access keys from the IAM user management console page of the Amazon AWS portal.

Download one of the code samples from the Resource Center.

Follow the instructions in the README file to: