Hi, I found myself locked out of the Y shopping API yesterday evening, even though I am sure I didn't remotely come close to reaching the rate limit. I did see...
... 2158287.html ... That would be nice since this is supposed to be a developer group. Would be nice to see how catalog or products are being called....
Hi Karim, Are you still getting blocked from calling the Shopping API? In addition to the daily limit (5,000 calls/day), there is also an hourly limit (5,000...
Jen, Thanks, I was allowed back in after (roughly) 24 hours. Still a bit curious about *why* I was locked out. I understand the rate limit isn't only a 24 hour...
If I implement yahoo shopping API search on my site, will I receive revenue sharing on click-through referrels for yahoo shopping products? I couldn't find...
Hi Andrew - We do have a paid syndication program in which partners can earn a revenue share from clicks out to merchant sites. For more information and to...
I have been trying for a long time now to get the image to show. This is to no avail. I am trying to use this for a product search using a query. I do get...
Jen and the team, Some queries using "4168-Brand" as refinements, for example, http://api.shopping.yahoo.com/ShoppingService/V2/productSearch? ...
Hi Meng - The tags you are referring to are provided by our merchants in their product feed. This would explain why you may have seen them come and go -- it...
Hi! Jen, Thanks for your reply. It seems that those <b></b> tags probably aren't coming from merchant feeds, because where those tags appear seems to depend on...
Hi Meng, Thanks for the examples. It looks like you are right -- our search back-end bolds the keyword searched for in the product title of our product search...
Hello, I am trying to find out how I can further sort items that are pulled up via the API. I want my users to be able to sort by price, brand, and item type....
Hi Chris - Here's a link to the Product Search API documentation, which contains sample urls with refinements as well as a brief section explaining how to use...
When we launched our first APIs for Search <http://developer.yahoo.com/search> , they were all located on api.search.yahoo.com. With an API offer that is...
Hi, I am trying to sort by price for the offers returned by catalogListing API. I see sort parameters in ProductSearch and Product review, but I don't see ...
Hi Hemanga, The CatalogListing API doesn't have sorting functionality built-in. If you'd like, you can add sorting functionality to the comparison grid on your...
Catalog entries have and ID that can be used (in Catalog Search) to get the catalog entry for a product. But, what about Offers that have no corresponding...
Hi Mark - That's correct, there is no way to retrieve a single offer based on an ID returned in a product search. Offers (unlike catalog products) are very...
The difference is typically in the size of the images -- Thumbnail is usually the smallest, followed by ListImage and then GridImage. You may often find that...
The catalog listing api (http://developer.yahoo.com/shopping/V1/catalogListing.html) indicates that zip is an <integer> or <integer>-<integer>. But, many zip...
Hi - The 999 error signifies you have exceeded your rate limit. See this post for more detail: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/yws-shopping/message/168 The...
I haven't found anything in the API documentation for this.. Is there a way to get the "See All 63 Brands" type refinements in the search results? right now...
Hi - Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We will update our documentation to indicate that zip code should be a string and not an integer. Note that...
Hi - Departments are essentially "uber-categories." They are high level categories where products are placed, much like in a department store. Categories are...
