This document describes how to download product XML in batch processing of products from Icecat. Icecat provides customers with the ability to download XML product data. Other available Pull-API interfaces are:
If you’re looking into pushing brand product data to Icecat, then check out the Push-API (JSON) manual.
To obtain access to Open Icecat, you will need a login/password, provided to you by Icecat. If you don’t have these, please register online for Open Icecat. Open Icecat is free and contains millions of products.
NOTE: During the registration you need to choose for the URL or Data (XML) version. If you want to make use of XML, make sure that you choose the Open Icecat Data subscription. You can always change this afterwards, or create a second subscription for the URL (links to hosted data-sheets) method.
In case you need higher catalog coverage, you will need Full Icecat. For more information, see the Icecat Susbcription Plans. You can request Full Icecat via the contact page.
Access to the product information of Full Icecat is protected. If you want to access the product information we need to unblock your IP address. Fill in the IP-address(es) of your server(s) and office in the “Allowed IP addresses” field. If you don’t know your office IP addresses, visit What is my IP to find your (office) IP. For you server IP address, please ask your system operator or provider.
You can fill in several IP addresses, separated by a space.
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Batch processing is handy when you want to download the product sheets directly. In this case you can use the index files to retrieve the product information you need.
For efficiency we advise not to download all products sheets Icecat can supply, but only select those you need.
Pre-sorting means less sheets to download, so less network activity and less storage needed on your servers.
If you do not have the GTIN and/or “Brand + Product Code”information then use the index file, to look for the product information you want and need.
Open Icecat | https://data.icecat.biz/export/freexml/XX/ |
Full Icecat | https://data.Icecat.biz/export/level4/XX |
Replace the XX for your specific locales and language code.
The following links are essential for this method.
https://data.icecat.biz/export/freexml/nl/files.index.xml.gz (.csv.gz) | Open Icecat, Dutch
https://data.icecat.biz/export/level4/nl/files.index.xml.gz (.csv.gz) | Full Icecat, Dutch
This file contains all products in the database of Icecat. Please, don’t download all product sheets in this index file, but only those you need and use. Sort the products from the index file and then download those you need.
https://data.icecat.biz/export/freexml/nl/daily.index.xml.gz (.csv.gz) | Open Icecat, Dutch
https://data.icecat.biz/export/level4/nl/daily.index.xml.gz (.csv.gz) | Full Icecat, Dutch
A much smaller file with all recent new and updated products.
https://data.icecat.biz/export/freexml/nl/on_market.index.xml.gz (.csv.gz) | Open Icecat, Dutch
https://data.icecat.biz/export/level4/nl/on_market.index.xml.gz (.csv.gz) | Full Icecat, Dutch
A smaller index with all currently available products. We have access to hundreds of wholesalers who daily submit what products they sell.
Where:
file path | Path to the product XML. |
Updated | The date and time when the product was updated. |
Quality | Where QUALITY = Supplier only the original product data as imported from a manufacturer’s CMS is available, the respective data-sheet is not yet standardized by our editors. When it is standardized the parameter is changed to QUALITY = Icecat |
Supplier_id | ID of the brand. You can find the brand names in the SuppliersList.xml.gz |
Prod_ID | The manufacturer product code of the requested product |
M_Prod_ID | Other (mapped) manufacturer product codes of the requested product |
EAN_UPC Value | The GTIN (EAN or UPC) bar code of the requested product |
Country_Market Value | In which country the product is available. |
Please, note that this language-specific content is the standardized content, which is entered by our editors, or – in case of no standardized values – the original data imported from the CMS of a manufacturer like HP, Toshiba, Philips etc.
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