we have a current website which shows the product, shopping cart and the whole shebang. and we're trying to migrate to Amazon web store, not the Cloud computing architecture type but the basic html web store method.
And based on the tools that i see is available on amazon web store, there seems to be a lot of html editing, excel file editing, etc.
i can see some of the process there which might get automated via perl scripting etc, but it still leaves a lot of work to be done.
So i was wondering if there's anybody else who has done this before and know of a better way to automate or setup a process so any future work can be hugely reduced down to as much automation as possible.
thanks!!
Edit
In case somebody is as lost as i am i was able to find some links on best practices, and found out that there's actually a Amazon seller desktop and AMTU tool which can use xml or soap to handle some automation on the inventory management part.
Amazon offers API for automated integration (although not all Webstore features are supported through these APIs).
The Marketplace Web Services API (mws.amazon.com) is well documented, and example client libraries are provided for Java, C# and PHP. For feed and report formats, you should refer to Seller Central Help pages for all formats, or to http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/rainier/help/tutorials/SOA-GuideToXML.pdf for more detailed documentation about XML formats.
For a higher level picture, www.amazonservices.com is a good start.
Related
I have an idea for a web app project, however, due to not having any programming knowledge, I'm first asking here for directions. Essentially, I wonder if the idea is realistic and what the most effective way could be for me to tackle it.
I want to combine several open-data sources, some in the form of API's (e.g. Google maps), others in the form of statistics in Excel sheets. Like a Mashup of different sources? The idea is to use the data to perform some data crunching and in effect provide some insights from this data in an aggregated way. I have previously played around with dashboards during an internship and I am attracted by the idea to maybe produce a Single page application for my idea with some visualisation. Any thoughts on this?
I have looked at the following services online, but I have no idea if they can help me produce a web app which aggregates different data sources and that allows for nice presentation:
Zoho Creator,
QlikSense,
Sproutcore,
Caspio
Any thoughts on this are highly appreciated!
Best regards
If you’re not a developer and would like to get started immediately, then you could get started by signing up with Zoho Creator. Its intuitive yet easy to use builder lets you setup web app in minutes.
Regarding your query for aggregation from different data sources, Zoho Creator provides REST API that allows you to access external data sources to interface with your web applications.
Zoho Creator allows you to setup the perfect web-app on a secure cloud with admin level access to handle the necessary permissions and manage data.
You can customize the Reports in your Zoho Creator application using Report Settings to suit your needs. Web-App can be created by converting a CSV/Excel into a full-featured Web DB / app in seconds.
You can check out our help videos or register for our upcoming webinar to know more about Zoho Creator.
Happy Building!!
Disclaimer: I work for Zoho Creator
I am looking for a software that can within defined timeframe request one endpoint in the system and provide its output to another one. I am dealing with internal endpoints, that is why 3rd party SaaS are not an option.
Things that I need it to do is
It should be configurable on the run (preferably through HTTP API)
It should request one endpoint and feed the output to another one
It should let to configure time frame
It should accept various authentication methods (for both sides)
Preferably support by community and opensource
Preferably free to use
I made quite extensive research on the internet withing last two days but was able to find only SaaS that provides that. I also asked my collegues at work but they could not suggest me anything useful. I am sure there is already something exists, it just me who could not find it.
After searching for me and looking for various DevOps tools, I discovered that such class of software is refereed as job Schedulers or Workload Automation. Most of the solutions are rather complex commercial system that provides not only such functionality. However there are some open source solutions available as well.
List of available software (it is not complete):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_job_scheduler_software
Anyone having trouble building API's with the new Kimono Desktop app. When I click create API the browser just stays on create API screen loading but nothing happens.
I even tried building an API that is the same as one I built when Kimono was still in business and no luck.
My existing api's still run and pull data fine.
Working just fine here.
Just a shot in the blue...did you install the new extension specifically for the desktop app? The old one can't work anymore since Kimono disabled the online service.
You can't build new APIs I think - only existing ones. :( Said something like it was not the acquiring company's policy to provide this publiclu available service but since they did not know how many businesses depended on their APIs they decided to allow existing APis to run.
You can also use their software for replace the online API. But it's an abandonware.
It's working great but on some website I can create new API because of an error.
I just find a possible (free) product that can replace Kimono : Datascraping.co.
They will include an REST FULL API within few days / weeks, as they said here.
It's a good software, but comparing to Kimono Desktop it's a little much more complicated.
Kimono got bought out and it's not working anymore.
Import.io is good but it kinda expensive for me. I've tried the free trial before but see the price starts from $249, so... https://www.import.io/standard-plans/
I don't have any progamming skills so I know very little about some web scraping frameworks like Scrapy.
You may want to look at this new web scraping software called Octoparse.
In case you want to know, here is the link:http://www.octoparse.com/
It takes a little time to begin. But they have rich tutorials on the website. Plus it doesn't require programming skills.
They provide cloud-based scraping service and API access.
You can use it to create API but you have to pay for the service. Free version doesn't have the API and cloud service.
I've been using it for 2 month with the Standard plan $89, which a lot cheaper than import.io. So far so good.
Hope it would be helpful for you.
I would like to export test cases along with the test steps from rally onto a csv/xml file.
If i go to Actions ->Export as csv/XML, i am not able to get the test steps. I get only the expected results section. Can someone help me out in this? Thanks.
Unfortunately, this functionality is not supported out of the box by Rally. You could write a script to do it using our Web Service API or one of our programming toolkits.
Mark
P.S. Rally uses StackOverflow for technical questions about coding to Rally Software's various APIs including the App SDK, Ruby & .NET APIs, and Web Service API not as much for questions about our product. You can always submit a support case for product-related questions.
My understanding is that Google Analytics (the tool I'd normally use for website analytics) cannot be used on a MySpace page, because MySpace doesn't allow you to embed javascript.
But my client wants to track usage of her MySpace page.
Has anyone found away around this? I'm looking for a different web-based, third-party analytics toolset, I guess. One that doesn't depend on javascript, is at least close to as feature-rich as Google Analytics, and is preferably cheap (or free!).
(I picture a 1x1 image-based solution.)
StatCounter is a pretty good alternative to Google Analytics that provides an image-based tracking tool for this sort of situation. It does only keep track of the last 500 requests for the free plan, however.
You also have to understand that the only way to do this without Javascript (the image based approach) will not be able to collect nearly as much data as the Javascript-based tracking tools.
AwStats is a server-side that processes based on your server logs.
GetClicky uses an image and/or a script to track visitors.