I use cj web services and have just been reading [cj forums] about upper limits to the number of product catalog requests one can make. I have also been posting to forums recently and just noticed today-- that my interfaces are not retrieving data-- I believe because my upper limits are being exceeded. This has happened in the past and normally corrects after a day... limits reset... Has anyone using this forum-- noticed this problem with their cj web services interfaces? If this is the case- shouldn't my cj stats show the impressions? Q...
I ran my CJ code for the firs time in a month today, and...nothing. I don't know what is going on. I am not getting error message, it is just not retrieving anything.
I didn't get a chance to check at the time you posted, but my CJ stuff is working fine now. I am not that impressed with the CJ API - compared to eBay and Amazon it's worse than useless. The datafeeds (CSV product files) are not much better, but at least you can store them locally if anything goes wrong. And the data is slightly richer too, at least in some cases.
Yesterday, my cj interfaces corrected after about 2 hours or so. Someone else on the CJ forum mentioned using csv data stored locally-- however I like the idea of build once [program interface] and always accessing the current dynamic data. That said-- how often does one have to re-import to the local database to stay current? You also mention-- richer data with the export? Does cj maintain two databases for their advertisers. The same database that allows me to retrieve ads on the fly-- should also be the database that enables export of the csv data-- should it not? Q...
Feeds are updated once in 24 hours typically, though sometimes it's less, but I have set up my scripts to do the import once a day. Probably advertisers don't update much more often than that anyway. I suppose it depends on the niche though, whether you expect drastic, up-to-the-minute changes in prices or whatever. You would think so, wouldn't you! However, I don't have time to dig out an example, but order a feed from an advertiser you are already accessing through the API and you will see there are more fields available, with different and additional data. In the end this was what convinced me feeds were better, at least for the site I was doing. However I should also add that the organisation of the data is often terrible! You find yourself having to use regular expressions to extract data from fields because useful data like dates is often concatenated together into one field with some other data. I don't know who designs their databases... So you often have to do some processing of the data - I do that during import. However, if you can be bothered, that can often mean you have some unique data that no-one else does and your site will be more unique!