Questions for people displaying Zazzle Products on their website using RSS or other methods.

[J32Design]

Hi everyone,

I am currently working on a WordPress plugin for my website which allows me to fetch product data via Zazzle's RSS feed and then post it as a product to my website, displaying the product in categories and on product pages. I have to say that I am not a programmer by any means. I dabbled a bit here and there in the past, but for this plugin I decided to use ChatGPT to help me get what I want.

I am making great strides. I have a search function in the backend of my website to enter a search term, the plugin then displays the results and I can choose which products I want to post by clicking on a post button. The plugin is also looking at whether the product already exists on my site and updates the data, which will be helpful when the product price is changing.

So far I am displaying the product image that the feed offers me. However, it appears via the RSS feed I can only get the main product image. I would like to get and display the other product images as well. Is there a way to do this?

[MOM]

@J32Design  I would not know the answer to your question as I my self am a "user of scripts", not a programmer. I'm replying here mostly so I can follow the conversation which very much interests me. And as a "user of scripts" I'm using Mark Highton Ridley's excellent plugin (https://niftytoolz.com/) which you can see in action on my site at https://sanfrancisco.zone/yin_yang_tree_of_life_symbol_customizable_soy_wax_mini_candle_favors/ (to give you an example of a product page on my own site). Mark's plugin only displays the main product image (I believe).

However I'm also signed up with Snuggle Hamster Designs (https://snugglehamster.com/). This is not Wordpress based but Jim of SHD shows more images (see as an example at https://snugglehamster.com/a/mom/p/sleek-modern-laser-engraved-employee-of-the-month) but again Jim's site is not Wordpress based.

I wish you much success!!

[JimCarnicelli]

Thanks for the shout out @MOM. @J32Design: please do consider joining us at Snuggle Hamster Designs. It's free promotion for your products. Plus free sales reports. And we have some premium services you might want to consider subscribing for if you'd like to help support us. Cheers.

[Teesed]

I used to use the Zazzle feed and another POD's feed extensively. I'm just getting back to messing with the Zazzle feed and it doesn't look like it's been updated since I first used it. I haven't found any way to pull an individual product or design's information - just what comes in from the general search that can be filtered to product type, etc.   All of that just shows the large and small thumbnail and basic information. It's missing the other thumbnails, variations, etc. that would be ideal to show an individual product page like I used to have. I've reached out to Zazzle yesterday and I'll keep looking, but I don't think it's available through a feed. As far as I can tell, you'd need to scrape the product page for that information, which is often a lot of coding that gets thrown out the window when they revise product pages. 

[J32Design]

I have been playing around with the feed probably as long as it has been on offer as well. I don't think it has every been updated.

I get individual items on the feed by using the product id as the search term. For example https://feed.zazzle.com/feed?qs=256187061141741901

I figured that I would probably have to scrape the page for additional images and other information not provided by the feed, but I hoped that there is something I am missing. Thanks for your reply! It is very much appreciated.

[Teesed]

That is super helpful and a clever way to get that. That helps me a lot as I build out this site initially. That will get me a basic product page while I build out the ability to scrape and save the data. Thank you!