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Product By Product Number Now Available 
For those who have been seeking it, and for those who haven't yet realized how useful it can be, we are pleased to offer a "Product By Product Number" web service.  Look for the documentation on how to use this web service below. 
Location of the AllPosters.com Product Information Web Service:
 
Web Services Offered:
1. Product Information Search

SUMMARY: This Web Service mirrors the AllPosters.com Advanced Search and allows you to perform text searches with filter parameters against the AllPosters.com product catalog.  This Web Service supports the languages and currencies that we offer.

Available Documentation:
1. Getting Started

Begin your journey here with the basics of our Web Services.
2. Learn By Example

Walk-through an example Visual Basic function that Requests the Web Service and parses the Response.
3. Quick Reference

This one-page hint sheet summarizes the Request and Response syntax to help you while you are programming.
Example in Perl

This PDF contains a Perl script that you can modify or use as a reference point when developing a Web Service application in Perl.

 

 
2. Product By Product Number

SUMMARY: This Web Service allows you to pull back product data given a specific product number.  Thus, only one item is returned at a time with this Web Service. This Web Service supports the languages and currencies that we offer.

Available Documentation:
1. Getting Started

Begin your journey here with the basics of our "Product By Product Number" Web Service.
3. Quick Reference

This one-page hint sheet summarizes the Request and Response syntax to help you while you are programming.
 
Hints, Tips, Tricks & Best Practices:

Best Practices:

  • Use the Web Service to Create Static Files
    Though our Web Service gives you real-time access to the AllPosters.com database, we recommend that you use the service to create static files rather than having your users dynamically hit the database. We routinely perform maintenance on our database which requires taking the database offline. If you create your website so that it is wholly dependent on the database in real-time, then your site will experience an outage while we perform maintenance.
  • Have a Back-up Plan
    If you do decide to create your site in such a way that it generates pages dynamically by hitting the Web Service in real-time, then we strongly recommend that you have a back-up plan in place in case the Web Service becomes inaccessible. How to achieve this is up to you, but one recommendation would be to create static files also and then to program your site to use the static files if it cannot access the Web Service.

Hints, Tips & Tricks:

  • Looking for Category Information?
    Our Web Service is meant for you to query Product Information. If you also want category information, that is available by using our datafeed generator.