Writing a new API

[jhpe07]

I want to hire someone to write me some API scripts to work with our bluepark site, can anyone recommend where I can find someone at a decent price, who knows what they are doing of?

[jhpe07]

Still looking if anyone knows of someone

[Bandanashop]

try elance.com or odesk.com, include the link to the Bluepark API in your preamble.
Rob

[Bandanashop]

Some other tips... write a specification of what you want your software to do in laymans terms. Ensure that the delivery includes source code, even if you dont understand it you need to retain your ownership of it. The programming language can be anything just about but if you pick a mainstream language such as C++, Java, PHP,Visual Basic, Python then you will find programmers to write it and more importantly maintain it. You don't need to know what tool they use but it should be mainstream i.e one of the above. I have used odesk.com and had great results in the past - chinese programmers with Masters in IT willing to excellent quality work for $8 USD per hour while you sleep.<br>Lastly create a user account for the programmer with limited access to do the job and test it. Change the password on delivery of the code or delete the account. If you require any other pointers let me know and I will try and help...
Rob

[forrunners]

Hi All,

firstly thanks for taking the time to read my post. We have just joined BP and need possibly 2/3 API setup to link with external shopping site like Spartoo & Fruugo etc. Can anyone give me any adviceon this.

thanks in advance

[Bandanashop]

Hi All,

firstly thanks for taking the time to read my post. We have just joined BP and need possibly 2/3 API setup to link with external shopping site like Spartoo & Fruugo etc. Can anyone give me any adviceon this.

thanks in advance

Hi,
If you tell me exactly what you are trying to do I can try and point you to which parts of the API you would need to use. I have no idea what technical level you have. I assume that you are exporting product information to them. If this is the case you need to call the retrieve products method qualifying the querystring with all the filters you want to get your product list, using something like http://www.yoururl/api/v1/products/ then format the response from that to what Spartoo and Fruugo require. However the first thing is to get the business case done first i.e. what is the cost to me of doing this manually once a day / once a week, how much time/cost is this API going to take me to do. If the latter is cheaper than the former then do it. Organise then automate.
Remember that Bluepark already has export CSV files that can be scheduled. Check if this is a cheaper solution before you begin.
Regards
Rob

[forrunners]

Hi,
If you tell me exactly what you are trying to do I can try and point you to which parts of the API you would need to use. I have no idea what technical level you have. I assume that you are exporting product information to them. If this is the case you need to call the retrieve products method qualifying the querystring with all the filters you want to get your product list, using something like http://www.yoururl/api/v1/products/ then format the response from that to what Spartoo and Fruugo require. However the first thing is to get the business case done first i.e. what is the cost to me of doing this manually once a day / once a week, how much time/cost is this API going to take me to do. If the latter is cheaper than the former then do it. Organise then automate.
Remember that Bluepark already has export CSV files that can be scheduled. Check if this is a cheaper solution before you begin.
Regards
Rob

Hi Rob,

thanks for the reply. My tech knowledge is pretty low but from what i have learned currently we have set up to both spartoo and fruugo updates ever 10mins or so. Ideally what we need is something that pulls our stock across to these platforms. i can send you a current feed to fruugo if that might help explain what we require.

regards
Seamus