How to automate the retrieval of Personal Files (PIF & PCF) using HTTP

Upload your document via HTTP/FTP

For regular updates to work, this option must be chosen:

Request Daily Updates

💡 Personalized Index File and Personalized Catalog are updated automatically at 8:00 pm CET.

Once the file is uploaded and matched, click on the Request Daily Updates button. ⚠️ It won’t appear if the feed is uploaded from a PC.

Our manager will contact you and assign you to regular updates. Essentially, it will unlock for you certain endpoints, which you can access to fetch PIF and PCF regularly.

Get your Access Token

To retrieve them, follow MyIcecat → Access Tokens:

api-token – token that grants you access to the product or Personal File. With this token anyone could access everything you could so keep them secret.

Personal Index Endpoint

Locale is always 🌐 International and outputs is always CSV.

https://icecat.biz/index.cgi?login_form=user_import_report;type=match;layout=csv;api_token=<TOKEN>

Personal Catalog Endpoint

You can choose the locale and the output format — CSV or Excel.

https://icecat.biz/index.cgi?login_form=csv_content;csv_file=/products_csv_lists_new/<IcecatUserID>_<LanguageCode>.<xlsx/csv>;api_token=<API_TOKEN>

In order to download your Catalog, you need to know your IcecatUserID.

Download any Personal Catalog File to clarify yours. For example. if your PCF name is 12345_INT.xslx your IcecatUserID is 12345.

Check the Language Table to view the full list of supported Languages.

❗The default format for PCF endpoint is CSV as we consider it more scalable and easy for to work with in the code. If you need to fetch the Excel PCF, you have to generate it on icecat.biz first.

Example for Personal Catalog in Excel

https://icecat.biz/index.cgi?login_form=csv_content;csv_file=/products_csv_lists_new/99999_INT.xlsx;api_token=<API_TOKEN>

Example for Personal Catalog in CSV

https://icecat.biz/index.cgi?login_form=csv_content;csv_file=/products_csv_lists_new/111111_EN.csv;api_token=<API_TOKEN>

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