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This repository contains OpenAPI models for developers to use when developing software to call Selling Partner APIs.
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Move the March 2022 MWS Products deprecation #1698

Closed teddy-codes closed 2 years ago

teddy-codes commented 3 years ago

Hello, I have been in contact on another issue (#975) and there is currently going to be a huge problem with all the product research tools when this API is removed due to use cases being not supported. I tried to open a conversation with seller support, but as most of all developers (and sellers) know... they are useless. So, I am again reaching out via issues. I would like to try and gain certainty that our product will not all of a sudden stop working March 2022 due to us waiting for a solution to be provided from the sp-api team.

txphi592 commented 3 years ago

We're in the same boat...

ellis commented 3 years ago

This has my vote too. The ListCatalogItems method of the SP-API api, which @teddy-codes also talks about in amzn/selling-partner-api-models#1563, is very import to us because of the results are ordered like the organic search results for site visitors.

teddy-codes commented 3 years ago

@ellis I know that not a lot of people are going to listen to this feedback, but I wanted to kind of give you some insight of what I am currently building out and why I think that it's fine.

@chapmanjw has mentioned that v0 of the catalog-items api will have changes made before the deprecation. This means that there will absolutely be a new version of the catalog-api prior to deprecation.

IMO, the 2020-12-01 version of the document was just something that Amazon was able to tell us developers to work with until they had a final release for us. @jenilew also said in the announcement that RFC for the removed apis should be in before sept. 30th. This means that before the deprecation, there is going to be another version with the adjusted features available to us. There also was something in the announcement about the removal of the Products API that the v0 api is going to be deprecated (as I mentioned) and listCatalogItems is going to be removed in favor of searchCatalogItems, but the endpoints are the exact same. This is probably just an internal change that they are making.

The v0 api has some things already that @chapmanjw was talking about. There are:

Honestly, the throttling is much less than ideal because now it is just 21,600 identifiers/terms per hours. Besides that, so far.. I am liking what I see. Not really sure what your thoughts are on this, but this seems like we are finally starting to get the giant to start moving with us after they pushed something and started thinking after.

teddy-codes commented 3 years ago

Apparently, disregard that whole comment.

https://github.com/amzn/selling-partner-api-models/issues/1563 confirms that there will be another version, but it will be a branch from the 2020 version not off of v0.

ellis commented 3 years ago

I added info related to this issue in https://github.com/amzn/selling-partner-api-models/issues/1425 with a response from the development team to a Support Case. It sounds like they still don't see this as an important use case, have no plans to support it in the new endpoint, and have so far decided to disregard the negative impact that the removal will have.

teddy-codes commented 3 years ago

@chapmanjw Is this something that you might be able to help us out with?

callumb123 commented 3 years ago

I am also very concerned about the deprecation of ListCatalogItems. It seems in many cases SearchCatalogItems actually returns zero results when ListCatalogItems returns 10 results for exactly the same query. This would be a massively breaking change if it were to go ahead in March without all of the concerns above being addressed.

callumb123 commented 2 years ago

@chapmanjw can you comment on the concerns raised in this thread? I fear the deprecation date is going to approach very quickly with none of these issues being resolved

txphi592 commented 2 years ago

@chapmanjw On 9/29/21 we received an email from Amazon (dev-reg-notice@amazon.com) indicating that Amazon “will be extending the date for when the Products API will be deprecated. In the coming weeks we will be posting a MWS deprecation roadmap to provide visibility and help developers plan their migration efforts for next year.” We have not seen such a roadmap published and have not seen a new deprecation date. Any insight on this? It’s important for us to understand the deadline for deprecation.

-----Original Message----- From: dev-reg-notice@amazon.com dev-reg-notice@amazon.com Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 2:51 PM To: XXXXX Subject: RE:[CASE 8190878881] [Important Notice] Amazon MWS Migration to SP-API

Hello,

Thank you for your response.

Please note, we will be extending the date for when the Products API will be deprecated. In the coming weeks we will be posting a MWS deprecation roadmap to provide visibility and help developers plan their migration efforts for next year.

Please continue to monitor the other support case you have open for a response from that team on your reported issue.

We have resolved this case as no other immediate action is required from you at this time.

teddy-codes commented 2 years ago

For everyone following this issue, there has been an announcement recently that pushed the deadline of deprecation to sept 2022.

https://github.com/amzn/selling-partner-api-docs/discussions/1781