Google Commerce Search Deployment Guide - Manual (Page 12)

The Data Quality tab appears.
Content API for Shopping
The
Content API for Shopping lets you programmatically manage your catalog instead of relying
on a feed file. It allows for much greater control of your products where you can selectively set
usecases, inventory, expire products, delete and update items. It offers much more flexibility
and provides item-by-item feedback if a particular operation (insert/update/delete) succeeded or
failed.
As with other authenticated Google APIs, the Content API is a RESTful web service that
requires a security token for each operation. The security token is derived from a Google
ClientLogin , which may be reused for multiple operations. An application wishing to insert
an item will first have to get a client login token as the user who owns the Merchant Center
account, then take the token and perform the insert operation. The Content API response will
show if the particular item passed validation and if it’s staged for insert.
Content API operations
The various operations the Content API supports are:
● insert
● delete
● update
● batch
● query (just to recall or iterate the catalog)
All operations are over HTTPS using various HTTP verbs (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) and
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