Access:
Merchant authentication required, secure connections (https://) only.
Frequency limitation(s): 12 request(s) per day.
Description:
This module provides on demand scheduling of updates to one or more of a merchant's configured product datafeeds. Merchant product datafeeds are updated automatically once per day, but this module is useful when more frequent or timely updates are required.
Supported Output Formats:
- csv
- tab
- xml
Parameters:
- auth_key
- Type: string
- Required: true
- Description: The AvantLink assigned authentication key for a particular affiliate or merchant. This is a randomly generated, 32-character, mixed alphanumeric string.
- merchant_id
- Type: integer
- Required: true
- Description: An AvantLink assigned merchant identifier.
- module
- Type: string
- Required: true
- Description: For this module, specify "MerchantTriggerDatafeedUpdate".
- datafeed_id
- Type: integer
- Required: false
- Description: If specified only that particular datafeed will be updated. If ommitted, all available datafeeds for the requested merchant will be updated.
- output
- Type: string
- Required: false
- Description: The specific output format you wish to receive results in. Possible values include: csv (comma-separated text), html, js (javascript document.write statements), rss, tab (tab-delimited text), and xml (the default). Individual modules may not support all output methods.