Currently it seems the only way to get a UPC for an item is in the entire catalogue feed. I think it would be nice to have this data available on the items that come back from a search. This way I can make sure my users are getting the correct item as soon as a user has searched.
Well, we have a lot of items in our database, and we've got integration with netflix now so that users libraries of items will be automatically updated based on the items in their netflix queue. The issue is that titles don't always match exactly because some of our titles are user-entered. However, all of our items have UPC data, so it would be very easy to link up the netflix items if this info was available along with the title, etc.
If you pulled the catalog index daily, you could do the match off of the cached title data in your DB as soon as you have a UPC to match. It may be a few months before we get around to putting this in our title responses. It's not that difficult, but there are other more popular requests higher up the list.
Currently it seems the only way to get a UPC for an item is in the entire catalogue feed. I think it would be nice to have this data available on the items that come back from a search. This way I can make sure my users are getting the correct item as soon as a user has searched.
Message edited by Chris Drackett 3 years ago
Michael Hart – 3 years ago
It's kind of a weird scenario, but I can't see harm in including the data. I'll put it on the feature backlog.
Chris Drackett – 3 years ago
Well, we have a lot of items in our database, and we've got integration with netflix now so that users libraries of items will be automatically updated based on the items in their netflix queue. The issue is that titles don't always match exactly because some of our titles are user-entered. However, all of our items have UPC data, so it would be very easy to link up the netflix items if this info was available along with the title, etc.
Michael Hart – 3 years ago
If you pulled the catalog index daily, you could do the match off of the cached title data in your DB as soon as you have a UPC to match. It may be a few months before we get around to putting this in our title responses. It's not that difficult, but there are other more popular requests higher up the list.
Chris Drackett – 3 years ago
Yeah, I'll look into that.. hopefully my poor little server can handle it...