Use Yahoo! Shopping Data on Your Site
- Posted August 2nd, 2005 at 10:30 am by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: News/Announcements
We’re excited to announce the
new product that enables Web site owners and software developers to use
Yahoo! comparison shopping data in their sites and applications.
Using the Shopping API, developers can create applications that
search the Yahoo! database of millions of products and thousands of
merchants, displaying prices and enabling searches in new and innovative
ways.
With the Product Search API, you can search by
keyword; limit your search to a specific merchant, price range or
product category, and filter merchants according to their Yahoo! User
ratings.
The Price Comparison Grid API gives developers
access to millions of products offered by multiple merchants, returning
base price, tax and shipping info and total price (based on zip
code).
If you’re a software developer, you can get the all the information
on using the Shopping API on the
site. If you’re a user of Yahoo! Shopping and you want to see how third
parties are connecting with Yahoo! Shopping, stay tuned. We’ll report
back soon with examples of applications and sites that use Yahoo!
Shopping data.
Jeffrey McManus
Director, Yahoo! Developer
Network
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I think this a good idea, however publishers want your yahoo publishing network….
Hmmm. Ok, so you get free data. But, the other big boys give you a little more incentive to use their API and data…getting paid for referring sales and account sign-ups. Is that in the plans for the shopping API?
What does this Yahoo Price Comparison API do? Can we earn money by displaying this data as webmasters? We have a similar site like Yahoo shopping called http://www.PriceComparison.com. Thinking of maybe providing this Yahoo as a secondary data.
Andrew @AT@ PriceComparison.com
http://www.PriceComparison.com
Well no offense guys but a shopping api with out a monetization model is a real loser for the web master. While the APIs at Shopping.com and other providers aren’t as cool or extensive, they do offer a clear path to generate revenue. Getting free customers for your merchants in the shopping program is less than appealling. Once you have a revenue sharing plan in place I will gladly develop apps using the API
How do you get on the Merchant list?
Beth
Old World Charms
http://oldworldcharms.net
Pretty cool. We will be try integrating the API into our new shopping directory/search: http://www.ishopsite.com.
Thanks,
John
http://www.ishopsite.com
I would like to get exact information how many shoppers Yahoo Shopping gets each months.
My website http://www.MyIsraeliFift.com selling Judaica and Israeli gifts online so I would like to receive specific info regarding your clients.
Its great rather technically but not financially coz there’s not any revenue earning plan.
But I’m here to know how to format and layout the product catalog listing using protocol REST?
I couldn’t find any examples regarding this.
Can you help me out by providing one example and it will be great if its using PHP.
Thanks
Sachin
Cool, but 2 questions: 1) I’d like to earn some affiliate dollars from these APIs. Do you have an affiliate program similar to eBay? 2) Your license says I can’t commercialize my application. What gives?
Thanks
http://www.myminiskirt.com
Do API’s for comparison sites offer the same benefits as targeted content search advertising? I’m pondering that same thing for PriceCheck.co.za for searches of digital cameras, laptops, wines, etc.