Catalog API: Query the Product Service by Offer

Hey Publishers,

 

At the request of several of your fellow publishers, we will be adding the ability to query the Catalog API Product Service by an offer's unique identifier ("offerId", or "OID") to return data related to a specific offer. 

 

In conjunction with the productId parameter, you will be able to set parameter productIdType to value "SZOID". Once you have entered a valid OID within the productId parameter, you will be able to return results for the related offer. Note that if you submit an invalid OID, no data for that OID will be returned in your result set.

 

Released: Thursday, August 6th

 

Don't forget to follow us on Twitter for snappy release notifications!  Upon release, you will be able to see an example result set returned with this new value through our Catalog API Interactive Documentation.  In order to access this documentation, you will need to log in with your Catalog API Key & Publisher ID.  Once you are in there, view the Product Service Resource section.  At the very bottom of this section, you will see a link "[ + ] show test form".  This will allow you to test out queries, viewing sample XML. 

 

For those of you who are not familiar with our Catalog API, this product provides advanced publishers with intuitive access to BizRate’s inventory of cataloged products and merchant offers through a query-based web service accepting various parameters, allowing publishers to filter based on their website’s shopping content needs. Based on these publisher-supplied parameters, customized BizRate shopping content is returned within an XML response.

 

As always, please do not hesitate to contact us should you have any questions.

 

The Shopzilla Publisher Team