Predominantly, we have Buyer's Guides for Books, Music, DVDs, Computers, Electronics, Software, and Video Games. This is because these categories are more...
Hi, The short answer is yes, the APIs are pulling product specification data from a different database than the product pages. With respect to your other...
Exposing the category structure has opened up a whole new way to build shopping with v2. But one copmlimentary feature is missing: in addition to showing the ...
I wouldn't describe this as a flaw in the XML, but rather a hindrance in my progress: <Products> has two kinds of children: <Offer> and <Catalog>. To transform...
Hi - You're correct...that functionality isn't available in v2. You may have noticed we don't expose parent nodes or ancestry categories on our site either....
Hi Nick - We don't currently have any plans to support this. But we're always interested in gathering feedback for our API roadmap, so I'll take this back to...
Hi, We are actually planning to roll out a small schema change tomorrow evening that should help simplify this for you and other developers using the v2...
Hi - Just wanted to send out a separate message to let everyone know we will be rolling out a schema change to the v2 Product Search API tomorrow evening. ...
hi, http://api.shopping.yahoo.com/ShoppingService/v1/catalogSpecs?&catalogid=1993471105&appid=YahooDemo the Description content is missing critical HTML tags....
After posting the question, I replied to my own message with a solution, but the message didn't "stick" here. Was it lost? Did I send it to the wrong address?...
Hi guys, Before I jump in I'd like to say that I'm totally new to API and that I'd like to use it on gazotto.com. The site is a gadget blog that uses Wordpress...
hi, http://shopping.yahoo.com/ has been giving me these messages all saturday and all morning sunday... Sorry, Unable to process request at this time -- error...
Hi Nick, There is a 5,000 query limit per IP address per day on the Shopping Web Services (non-commercial version). The 999 error indicates you have exceeded...
Hi - Excellent question! And the answer is pretty confusing, to be honest. The pricing categories and the API categories actually come from separate internal...
More information on how our rate limiting works may be found here: http://developer.yahoo.net/search/rate.html Information on requesting a commercial exception...
this does not sound right. i barely make less than 100 API calls as i'm testing out my aplication manually! this morning, i have made zero calls. i tried...
reading the FAQ page, i did NOT get the XML response as described: <Error xmlns="urn:yahoo:api" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" ...
Hi, From looking at the logs, it looks like you exceeded your daily limit around Sunday Mar 19 22:17 PST. I should also clarify that although the daily limit...
hi jen, that certainly explains it! i preload my database daily for price comparisons (catalogs), specs, etc. and my script loads the 15 ipod models at once...
Hi, We don't see reference to the Shopping space in the Perl code supplied in the SDK for the Yahoo! Web Service API. Is it possible to use the code that is...
It has a point. Why don't you try making it Java version? ... From: "utleycross" <utleycross@...> To: <yws-shopping@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday,...
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We do not see support for the Shopping space in the java code, or any of the other languages in the Yahoo Web Service Api SDK. It is simple in any language to...
Hi, I totally see how an SDK that wraps the REST call in as many languages as possible is really useful. We want to update the SDK more frequently and cover...
Thanks for the update. So you can estimate the need, it was only 1 day to write a set of generalized methods in Perl (and would have been quicker with true...