New API Call: Similar-Product-Search
1 Nov 2024
So far the product search provided by our API requires all parts of the name to search for to match the product name in our database. The reason is that there is no way to generally decide which describing attribute is absolutely necessary to differentiate products within the millions of products in our database and which is just an additional description.
But feedback from customers confirms that they often also need a list of products that are just similar to their search query. Thus we introduce the similar-product-search API call that provides exactly that.
https://api.ean-search.org/api?token=abcdef&op=similar-product-search
Usually it is best to do a regular product-search API call first to see if there is an exact match in the database and if nothing is found, then follow up with a similar-product-search call.
For details, please see the updated API manual.