I've been trying to find a way to list all the shipments that were made?.
I know that there's FedEx Insight but the only way to interact is by the Ship Service and the only thing one can do is Add Data for the service on a Shipment.
If the shipments can't be requested, there's a posibility to get a list of Track Id's or the refereces numbers?.
This isn't a function of FedEx's Web Service.
There's a Track Service but that assumes you know the tracking number or reference value already.
My recommendation would be to look at their EDI solution if you want a comprehensive list of shipments/tracking numbers based on an account.
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I'm looking recommended ways to extract usage data by API key for a given set of Google Cloud Endpoints APIs. The project bills customers the usage of a certain API.
My goal is to know how many times each client calls each of the ESP apis in a given month so that they can be billed based on their usage.
Example
client_a:
api-key: 12345
client_b:
api-key: 67890
ESP1:
api_esp1
ESP2:
api_esp2_foo
api_esp2_bar
Ultimately, I want to know how many times client_a used each of the available ESP APIs, and how many times client_b used them.
One (part of the) solution is to create a GCP project per client as outlined here. I didn't figure out how to go from there though.
I am working with my team to prep a project for a potential client. We've researched Amazon MWS API, and we're trying to develop an algorithm using the data scraped from this API.
Just want to make sure we understand the research correctly:
Is it possible to scrape data from Amazon.com like the plugins RevSeller or HowMany do? Then can we add that data to a database for use in an algorithm to determine whether or not an Amazon reseller should invest in reselling a product?
Thanks!
I am doing a similar project. I don't know the specifics of RevSeller or HowMany, but another very popular plugin is Amzpecty. If you use a tool like Fiddler, you can see the HTTP traffic and figure out what it does. They basically scrape out the ASIN and offer listing ID's on the current page you are looking at and one-by-one call the Amazon Product Advertising API, which is not the same thing as MWS. Out of that data returned, they produce a nice overlay that tells you all kinds of important stuff.
Instead of a browser plugin, I'm just writing an app that makes HTTP calls based on a list of ASIN's to the PA API and then I can run the results through my own algorithms. Hope that gives you a starting point.
Is there an MWS or AWS API call that I can make using a product ASIN that will tell me whether or not the information being returned from the Amazon servers is coming from the main product listing or from one of the "additional sellers" that are piggybacking off of the main product listing?
What I'm trying to do is programmatically determine if the MerchantId I'm using in the GetMatchingProductForId() call is the same MerchantId that originally created the product listing on Amazon. If they aren't the same it means (in theory, anyway) that I can work with a much smaller subset of the data, and post just the information that's required for the "Condition" and "Condition Note" values in a Marketplace Offering.
And yes, this question is directly related to How to get Seller Name from Amazon in ItemSearch using amazon API, but the API call and parameters in the answer have been deprecated by Amazon. Literally, the request returns <MerchantId>Deprecated</MerchantId> in the response, so I can't compare the Merchant ID value that I'm using to make the call against the <MerchantId> node returned in the response.
After a lot of (very tedious) research and experimentation I've settled on a series of three MWS API calls to determine whether a product is an Amazon Marketplace Listing or an Amazon Marketplace Offering.
GetCompetitivePricingForSKU -- This call returns an XML CompetitivePrice node containing a belongsToRequester attribute set to "true" or "false". The caveat (and the reason why I'm using three different MWS API calls) is this call fails miserably for merchants that have predetermined shipping charges for their products.
GetMyPriceForSKU -- This call will return an error if the merchant doesn't "own" the Marketplace Listing. Purely anecdotal and empirical, though.
GetMyPriceForASIN -- The least reliable call of these three. Sometimes it will return an XML MerchantSKU node... and sometimes it won't.
Since Amazon doesn't provide any definitive answer (or documentation) for this issue, please take all of this advice with a large grain of salt. Run your own use-cases and see which one(s) work for you.
The GetProductForID is intended to give you details about a product. Mainly this is used to get the ASIN by using a UPC code, and other product details such as bullets, image, size, etc.
If you are trying to see if your offer for the same product is competitive you can either use the GetLowestOfferListingForASIN (to get the asin use the GetProductForID (if you have some sort of id like UPC) or ListMatchingProducts to do a text search). That way you will know what type of offer you need to place to try and get the buy box.
If you are looking to get more details to all the unique offers listed for a product (new, used, etc), then you need to use the subscriptions API (its pretty new). This can get pretty complicated.
I have a real time web analytics problem to address, and I'm wondering if some of the WSO2 products might be an appropriate solution.
An ecommerce web site shows pages of products to a browser user, and the web site vendor wants to collect details of what products were viewed in a list, what products were selected from the list for more info, what products were put into the basket, and what products were actually purchased - all in real time. I can use web page tagging to generate logging events for the four states (I.e. In list, view detail, in basket, purchased). The web site vendor wants too see results summarized by product and by rolling time band (e.g. Last hour, last 6 hours, last 24 hours, last 72 hours) by the four product states.
As a complete WSO2 newbie I'm hoping somebody can help with some pointers on how to address this. I've been reading about the BAM module to capture events. Is that a good place to start? Also can anybody suggest a good in memory data store to hold the event data aggregated by event type and rolling time period?
TIA
Yes, BAM is more kind batch processing, monitoring and complex engine and using it you can capture data, process and then present. In architectural point of view, the product states that are changed by the browser user will be captured by the web server and publish to BAM server.
A good point to start is learning about data publishing. Once you define the data [in BAM it is known as stream definition] to be published, you can write a hive script to process it and present. You can pump all data to BAM and then you can use hive script to process and store it in the manner you wanted. Later you can retrieve and present.
I am sure this question may seem a bit lacking, but I literally do not know where to begin with. I want to develop a solution that will allow me to manage ALL of my Amazon and Rakuten/Buy.com inventory from my own website.
My main concern is keeping the inventory in sync, so the process would be as follows:
1.Fetch Orders sold today
a.Subtract the respective quantities
2.Fetch Rakuten orders sold
a.Subtract the respective quantities
3.Update Internal DB of products
a.Send out updated feeds to Amazon and Rakuten.
Again, I apologize if this question may seem a bit lacking, but I am having trouble understanding how exactly to implement this, any tips would be appreciated
For the Amazon part look at https://developer.amazonservices.com/
Rakuten, I think you will be able to do what you want with it via the FTP access, I'm still researching this. If I find more I'll respond with a better answer.
In order to process orders, you'll need to use be registered with Rakuten in order to get an authorisation token. For the API doc etc... try sending an email to support#rakuten.co.uk.
Incidentally, to send out updated feeds, you'll need to use the inventory API in order to update stock quantities (given that you'll be selling the same item Amazon etc..).