Shopping.com API

The Shopping.com API is a tool to help webmasters monetize their website(s) / community. The API provides general product information, specifications, store offers, merchant information and much more. Ryan Dugan of Shopping.com put together a great slideshow about the business model of Making Money with the Shopping.com API, a great place to start if you are new to the Shopping.com API.

Shopping.com API Script?

The SDC API is a great asset to the web, but integrating the whole API it is not simple. There are Shopping.com API Scripts you can purchase on various software sites. But, these scripts limit the website owner with design options and are not "fun" to maintain. With today's webstands (more functionality with less work), the scripts option is really not the way to go.

Better Solution?

I am hoping to change that in the coming months with a Shopping.com API Drupal module. The module will allow you to prepopulate your Drupal site wilth product information, reviews, store offers and more within minutes. Since Drupal is a CMS you will have the flexibility to add other features to Shopping.com data and control theming. A demo is coming soon!

Below you will find more information about the Shopping.com API and Drupal module progress.

Websites utilizing the Shopping.com API: here and here.

Get Involved:

- Join the Shopping.com API Linked In Group

- Join the Shopping.com API Drupal module Group (Coming Soon)

- More about the Shopping.com API Partner Program

- Develop your own solution at the Shopping.com API Developer Center

Below are posts regarding the Shopping.com API and Shopping.com Drupal Module (yet to be named).

Update: Shopping.com API module progress...

March 9, 2009
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Update: Shopping.com API module progress...

This project was set aside last June, as I was working on it in my spare time. Shopping.com (aka SDC) is now pushing all it's partners to switch to the Version 3 platform within the next 6 months. Yikes! I figured I need to give this module more priority. Here is the progress so far, for Drupal 6. What is functional... (read more)

Update: Shopping.com API, shopping module and your invite

May 30, 2008
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Update: Shopping.com API, shopping module and your invite

Shopping.com API Update

On May 14th, 2008 Shopping.com released the new version (version 3) of their API, the Shopping.com API, commonly called the SDC API. If you were a Shopping.com API version 2 user you will be very happy to see such changes as: (read more)

Update: Shopping.com API module for Drupal

April 2, 2008
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Update: Shopping.com API module for Drupal

Some years back I had a module made to use Shopping.com's API, unfortunately the module never made it to Drupal.org nor has been updated for the newer versions of Drupal. I blogged about this shopping comparison drupal module several weeks back.

I spent some time tonight upgrading this shopping comparison module and I am one step (out of many more to come) closer to converting this module to Drupal 5. There are tons of small bugs that need to be removed as well as code rewrite. (read more)

New 3rd party Drupal module - revenue based shopping comparison coming

March 8, 2008
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New 3rd party Drupal module - revenue based shopping comparison coming

I am working towards releasing a revenue sharing module back to the community. The module is based off a shopping comparison api, much like the Amazon module. This module will allow medium to large sites to leverage their traffic outside of advertising banners, Google Adsense etc. Unfortunately it will require Drupal 6 and PHP 5*. (read more)