Magento API - Get Product Names from specific Category - api

Question

I'm working on the Magento API and I got some questions...
I try to get all Product Names from a specific category at Magento.
here's my code for that:
<?php
$host = "www.host.tld/index.php";
$client = new SoapClient("http://".$host."/api/soap/?wsdl");
$apiuser= "user"; //webservice user login
$apikey = "pass"; //webservice user pass
try {
// Login
$sess_id= $client->login($apiuser, $apikey);
// Getting all products from category
$filters = array( 'category_ids' => array('107') );
$productList = $client->call($sess_id, 'catalog_category.assignedProducts', $filters);
//iterate and get all the product_id's and put it into one array
foreach($productList as $products => $values){
if (isset($values['product_id']) || array_key_exists('product_id', $values)) {
$product_ids[] = $values['sku'];
}
}
//Get product details from product_id
foreach($product_ids as $key => $values) {
$details = $client->call( $sess_id, 'product.info', array($values));
#echo $details['name'];
}
}
catch (Exception $e) { //while an error has occured
echo "==> Error: ".$e->getMessage();
exit();
}
?>
The main problem I have is, that the performance I get is not the best. For each "product name" I make one api-call for getting all products. Every time for each product. That's probably not so clever.
What can I optimize. Am I missing something?
I can imagine, that if I want to get the details from more than one category, my server will crash ;). We have about 1000 products in our shop.
Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

Try
$proxy = new SoapClient('http://magentohost/api/soap/?wsdl');
$sessionId = $proxy->login('apiUser', 'apiKey');
$filters = array(
'id' => array('in' => array(<product_id_1>, <product_id_2>, ...))
);
$products = $proxy->call($sessionId, 'product.list', array($filters));
If you need some extended info about product - you should alter magento code, see this my answer on the similar questionL Magento API v1- List prices for all products in one call

Answer 2

You can use to catalog_category.assignedProducts
Retrieve the list of products assigned to a required category.
try this if you are using SOAP V1:
$client = new SoapClient('http://magentohost/api/soap/?wsdl');
// If somestuff requires api authentification,
// then get a session token
$session = $client->login('apiUser', 'apiKey');
$result = $client->call($session, 'catalog_category.assignedProducts', '4');
var_dump($result);
// If you don't need the session anymore
//$client->endSession($session);
if you are using SOAP V2:
$proxy = new SoapClient('http://magentohost/api/v2_soap/?wsdl'); // TODO : change url
$sessionId = $proxy->login('apiUser', 'apiKey'); // TODO : change login and pwd if necessary
$result = $proxy->catalogCategoryAssignedProducts($sessionId, '4');
var_dump($result);
and the respond would be like this:
array
0 =>
array
'product_id' => string '1' (length=1)
'type' => string 'simple' (length=6)
'set' => string '4' (length=1)
'sku' => string 'n2610' (length=5)
'position' => string '1' (length=1)
1 =>
array
'product_id' => string '2' (length=1)
'type' => string 'simple' (length=6)
'set' => string '4' (length=1)
'sku' => string 'b8100' (length=5)
'position' => string '1' (length=1)