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Finding API Feature Request: Include PictureURL in all requests.
Posted:
Nov 4, 2009 1:27 PM
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The Finding API is, in my opinion, a step in the right direction. The eBay team has done a great job thus far.
However, I've noticed a shortcoming. All findItem... calls don't return a PictureURL node. The galleryURL node contains a thumbnail image, which, if enlarged by developers, creates a fuzzy, unattractive image for display purposes. The PictureURL contains a much larger image that would be very useful for display.
Right now, we developers are looping through the results of the findItemsAdvanced call and retrieving all product itemIds and then feeding those values to the Shopping API's GetMultipleItems call just to get large images . This works but makes our applications a bit slow (depending on the number of items we want to get). Including the PictureURL node in data returned by the Finding API calls would kill two birds with one stone and definitely make us developers happy campers! :-)
This is just an idea. But I believe you guys can get this done with relative ease. We will be waiting!
Thank you.
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