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Finding category of an item when posting through api?
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We have been working through getting our items posted via bonanzas API, and its been going mostly fine, however we seem to have run into a snag, the main category for the item is required, but there seems to be no automated way of determining what the main category for the item should be? other systems like ebay etc have an api call where you can pass a upc/etc, or item title/keyword and it returns the most likely categories for that items. And I do see that there is a manual search that can be performed on pages like https://www.bonanza.com/categories/full_list

But from the documentation I cant find any way to access that search in a way that doesn’t require someone to personally look it up on the site.

The closest I could find is [URL removed] but that only helps you find sub categories when you pass the MAIN category. But how do I GET the main category ID?

All help appreciated! and if there is a better place to post this let me know!

asked about 5 years ago

Jposey022
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Send an email message to [email protected]

answered about 5 years ago

tomwayne1
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NICE…This is a great step towards development. You can bring more 2.1 speakers ([URL removed] as they are becoming popular among teenagers.

answered over 4 years ago

Jackie12334
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