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Retrieving product specifications though SDC API version 2

    • souqueta
    • Topic created 6/27/08 2:08 am

    Hi,

    To retrieve product specifications given a product title, the most efficient solution found so far, is to perform 2 SDC API calls:

    * First step is to retrieve product ID proceeding to a search.

    * Second step is to make a specific call to retrieve product details.

    Is this something improved in API version 3? Can API called only once to retrieve product specifications?

  1. Ryan7/7/08 1:28 pm

    Hi soqueta -

    This has indeed been improved in API v3. You can now simply ask for specifications to be included for any products returned by adding the 'showProductSpecs=true' parameter (see http://developer.shopping.com/docs/API_Use_Cases#8).

    --ryan