(Note: at least one keyword or category ID must be entered when using a SZPID value)
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The Brand Service |
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This can be done as shown below:
Step 1: Pull the first 250 results
Step 2: Pull the next 250 results
You should repeat the process until all required results have been gathered.
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A: SZPIDstands for Shopzilla Product ID and is unique to each product. If you want the API to return all the offers for a specific product then you should launch a query using “SZPID” and set the “ProductTypeID” parameter to its according type, “SZPID” as shown in the example below:
(Note: at least one keyword or category ID must be entered when using a SZPID value)
Example of a query for “Ipod Nano 16GB Silver – 6th generation”:
SZOID stands for Shopzilla Offer ID and is unique to an offer for a given product. Therefore, if you only wish to display a specific offer from a specific product on your website, then you should launch a query using “SZOID” and set the “ProductTypeID” parameter to “SZOID” as shown in the example below:
(Note: at least one keyword or category ID must be entered when using a SZPID value)
Example of a query for an offer from the merchant “Laskys” for the Ipod Nano 16GB Silver – 6th generation:
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A: PIDs and OIDs can be found in the API XML feed under the “Offer” element as shown in the example below:
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A:The term of taxonomy refers to the Shopzilla category tree as displayed on Shopzilla websites. This is how our categories are built and how it is structured. The purpose of the taxonomy is to make visitor experience on Shopzilla as simple as possible when looking for a product.
The Taxonomy Service will therefore enable you to browse and explore the Shopzilla category tree.
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A:You should use the “ancestors” parameter in the Taxonomy Service if you want to see the path from the “root” category to the “target” category, or in other words the category for which you want to use the content. In order to include the ancestor path in the API XML feed, you should to set the “ancestors” parameter to “true”.
This parameter may be useful if you’re building your own price comparison website with our API and want to get a better understanding of how to create a category tree.
Example of a query including the “ancestors” element for the category “Laptop” (category ID: 13969)
(Note: the "ancestors" parameter should always be used in conjunction with the categoryID parameter)
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A:The minimum bid by category can be found using the Taxonomy Service, under the “MinimumBid” element in the API XML feed.
E.g:
To know the minimum bid for a specific category, simply launch a query using the Taxonomy Service. Once in the Taxonomy Service, enter the category ID for which you wish to find out the minimum bid, then submit the query.
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A:Merchant ratings and reviews on Shopzilla are only available for merchants who have collected more than 20 survey responses from buyers. Below this amount, we consider that ratings or reviews are not accurate enough and are not displayed on Shopzilla.
As a consequence, you will only be able to find Merchant ratings and reviews in the API feeds when these merchants have collected more than 20 survey responses.
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A:Yes, it is possible to change image sizes by modifying their format. In order to do so, simply take the image’s URL located under the “Image” element in the API XML feed and modify the size as shown below:
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It simply means that pricing information is not available in the feed. This can either be because the store hasn’t shared this information with Shopzilla or because different factors (only available on the merchant’s site) determine the final price of a product.
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i.e. A good example would be mobile phones for which the final price often depends on the contract chosen by the customer.
You are normally remunerated for each click sent to one of Shopzilla merchants. However there are two exceptions that you should be aware of when using the Shopzilla Catalogue API:
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