v2/updateinventory or v3/updatelistinginventory error URI to long

[A Whites]

Has anyone had any luck using the updateinventory method in creating "a lot" of SKUs? 

The company I work for primarily sells shirts and I sell my own items as well and put together the API in python which is working fine for listings with a lower number of SKUs. 

For instance with the shirts I have two variations: Size and Color, most of our men's shirts have 2 colors and 6 sizes or 12 SKUs, all of these work just fine and has been a tremendous help using the API. However when I go to make a listing that might have more than 18-20 SKUs I get a 414 error: URI too long.

I have narrowed it down to the URI being <= 8200 characters in order to work. But since Etsy allows up to 70 variants for each of the 2 variations, 4900 SKUs, I'm hoping there is a way to add more SKUs through an API call. 

When I've asked Etsy Developer Support for guidance before this was the basic response I was given: "Make sure you are including all of the variations in the body. If you try to include everything in the URI you'll quickly run out of space"

I am not sure how to pass the parameters through the body rather than the params of the url. I am using the requests and oauthlibs in Python, so that would be the most appreciative help but if anyone has done this in any other language I would appreciate any advise. I have been searching most examples I have found only stop at 2 SKUs.

Thank you 

Allen Whites

[david olick]

In the V2 API, you could send API messages via an http POST and just add &method=put or whatever.  I would recommend using a POST instead of a GET, if that's what you are doing.

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[A Whites]

David, 

I was using PUT for the updateinventory method. 

I figured out what I was doing wrong though.

I originally was passing through the paramaters and would get URI too long error, when I tried passing through the body with python requests I got an error rearding my oauth signature. I just started using v3 and discovered the reason behind the errors in the body was because I used json.dumps on my products list then trying to make the body json with the json(products) and the on_property values. Once I changed it to be one full json it went through.

Thanks