In these Icecat Release Notes 118, we discuss the main new development of Index files per Vertical. Further, we applied a number of small improvements: the addition of the completeness score to a coverage report, adding links to manuals on the Import/Export page, changing documentation icons, and some security improvements. You can find the previous Icecat Release Notes 117 here. Index files per Vertical We have released Index Files per Vertical where users can get all the products for a given Vertical. The Index file structure remained downward compatible. The main advantage is that these Vertical Index files are much lighter…
From April 13 onward, Icecat publishes index files per vertical for the EN and NL locales. A Vertical is defined here as a root category, such as Computers & Peripherals, Lighting, or Fashion. Due to the increased size of Icecat, it is more efficient for specialist retailers to process a single Vertical. Instead of the full index with all products. Because it is much faster to process, for example, 100K Fashion product references than 10M. Therefore Icecat has started publishing Index files per Vertical. At the same time, the structure of the Indexes stayed the same. And, Full Index files…
