Sort Listings By Last Modified

[Brandon Levey]

Is there a way to do this? I see that by default the sort is by
created but it would be extremely handy if there was a way to sort
listings so that the most recently updated listing was first and then
descended from there. I know in a sense this can be accomplished via
push but regardless am wondering if the sort by last modified is
available in the rest api?

Thank you.

[Justin Kerr Sheckler]

Hi Brandon,

I'm afraid we don't offer at this time.  We'll look into it.

best,

Justin Kerr Sheckler
Developer API Lead
Etsy.com
jus...@etsy.com

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[blevey]

Hi Hi,

Is there a way to do this now and/or is there a way to filter the listing response for only listings modified after a certain date?

Thank you very much,

Brandon

[Kristy Frey]

If there is, it's not in the documentation, but I'd like to add that this would be a HUGE improvement and significantly reduce the number of API call I currently make.  It would be nice to have this sort option on all methods that return multiple  results.

[Matt Graham]

Hi,
If this is not how we currently return results from the findAllListingsActive call, then this isn't currently available. I'm curious though, could you share how you would like to use listings sorted in this way?

Thanks,
Matt

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[Kristen Frey]

Most of what I do with the api is for a team.  If a team tag is added to a listing after creating the listing (let's say the shop owner joins the team and wants to add the team tag to their existing listings that are relevant to the team) the only way to find a newly tagged item is to get them ALL, over and over - or subscribe to push feeds of every team member shop and get a lot of irrelevant listing changes. Same with treasuries and the team tag.  If a treasury from a few days ago is updated I won't know without getting them all again (because now I sort by create date and the modified treasury won't always be in the first result set).  My team's "reward" system for creating treasuries is based on crunching this data to see who is working hard for the team.  

Hope that makes sense,

Kristy

[david olick]

I could use this as well.

When a user visits my site, the first thing I try to do is synchronize our site with the latest changes from their shop.

The only way for me to find out what listings have been updated is to actually look at all of that user's listings.  If they have 200+ listings, then we have to crawl over all of those listings to just find out if there's been any updates over the past day or even in the past hour.  There's no easy way to tell early on if there's been updates at all.

If we could limit it to the couple that have been modified instead, it would make querying for changes much quicker.  Even if sorting is too expensive, at a bare minimum it would be good enough to limit it by listings updated after a specific time.

Updates, to me, would include changes to a listing's images.

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Oriku Inc.

[Matt Graham]

Hi Kristen and David,
Could you use the shop RSS feeds to find which items for a shop recently changed?
https://www.etsy.com/shop/WhiteAlchemy/rss

[Kristen Frey]

Not for treasuries (which is my bigger focus currently).  For team listings, I considered the shop rss feeds, but my team is pretty huge and I'd still have to poll each feed regularly only to find no updates.

Kristy

[david olick]

The rss feeds may be helpful to me.  Is there any documentation on them so I can learn more about them?  I can't really tell from that example what gets pushed to the feed or how it works (updates in the past week?  X number of updates? etc.)

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David Olick

Oriku Inc.

[Matt Graham]

Hi David,
This would be a bit of a hack/workaround in the absence of the API providing direct support for what you need so it's not something we're likely to document. It is formatted as standard RSS though and it appears to return the last 10 listings for the shop.

Matt

[david olick]

Without documentation (or a reliable description) about what causes something to go into the RSS feed (and what doesn't), I probably won't use it.  If I rely on it and it has edge cases I'm unaware of, it could break my app.

But I'll keep it in mind as I may find a use for it in the future.

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Oriku Inc.

[Brandon Levey]

We modify people's inventory in realtime to make sure they actually have exactly what is listed on each listing quantity. While we can use the feed, this will not suffice as there is risks of missing / dropping a feed, and even a single miss for a customer is bad. For this reason, no matter what, we need to look to the listing results. Being able to sort all listings, not just active listings (as we move listings to/from active/inactive automatically) by last modified would be a huge help.

Thank you,

brandon

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[Kristen Frey]

I tested my rss shop feed to see if changing a description on a listing would move it to the top of the feed.  It did not.  I changed one that was not showing in the feed and it did not move into the feed.  The shop rss does not appear to be ordered by modified date.

Kristy

[david olick]

If the RSS feed doesn't include recently modified listings then this is definitely not what I'm looking for.

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Oriku Inc.

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After several years, what is the practice to get latest updated listings?