Catalog API: Join us on ProgrammableWeb

Hey Publishers,

For those of you who have integrated with our Catalog API, or are contemplating it, we invite you to join us on ProgrammableWeb.  ProgrammableWeb hosts a directory of APIs, regularly updated with useful information encompassing open and vendor APIs, mashups created using these APIs, and general news related to service-oriented web development.  It's a great resource for both website owners and developers.

You are able to register for a user account which will allow you to follow API profiles, alerting you to any changes within those that you choose to follow.  In addition to our blog updates, we will be maintaining our ProgrammableWeb API profile to keep Catalog API users in the loop on new development.  Many of our publishers have already listed their mashups on ProgrammableWeb- get in there!

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

Comments

[Shopzilla Publisher Team]

Hey Steve,

Unfortunately, we don't currently provide a CSV version of either our Catalog API responses or FTP Data Feed- right now, it's just straight XML.

Note, though, that http://www.datafeedscripts.net/ have developed an easily integrated Catalog API solution for a .Net framework. It's a third party product, so not something we maintain, but could help you out?

Let us know if any other questions pop up,
The Shopzilla Publisher Team

[Steve Arun]

Hi,

We have developed a system at http://www.shopmario.com where we can upload datafeeds CSV's. This work perfectly with linkshare and others, you can check at http://www.shopmario.com/demo but i cant find an example CSV in my publisher account to check if same can work with my system.

Your earlier reply will be highly appreciated. I am using .Net framework to build my application and soon we will launch the PHP version of the project.

Thanks and regards

steve.