With Category metadata feeds, you can input one or more (leaf) Category ID/Channel ID pairs, and required, preferred, and optional item specific name/value pairs will be returned in the response file. See About classification feeds for information on obtaining suggested listing categories and their unique IDs.
The Category metadata feed has a request file and a response file. In the request file, the seller provides one or more Channel ID/Category ID pairs. The generated response file will include all required, recommended/preferred, and optional Item Specifics name-value pairs for each Channel ID/Category ID combination.
Requirements
- Category metadata feeds must contain all of the elements listed as required in the Category metadata feed definitions table.
- Feed files are limited to uploading 10,000 records per day, which is the sum of all records uploaded in the 24-hour period starting at midnight, 00:00:00 PST (PST = GMT - 8 hours). Before uploading a file, remove duplicate records. A duplicate record shares the same the unique column combination for the feed file. For Category metadata feeds, make sure each record has a unique Category ID and Channel ID.
How to create a Category metadata feed
To create a Category metadata feed, perform the steps below.
Using the MIP GUI
The following procedure assumes that you are already signed in to MIP.
- Click Metadata > Category metadata link to open the Category metadata feed page.
- Click Upload and browse to the Category metadata feed file that you want to use.
- Click the file name to upload the file to MIP.
- In a few seconds (if processed successfully), the response file will be available for download on the Category metadata feed page.
- Click Download link to open the Category metadata feed response file.
- Based on required, preferred, and optional item specifics, you can update your Product feed with those item specific name-value pairs.
Using the MIP file server to obtain item specifics
- On the MIP SFTP file server, copy your Category metadata feed file into the Category metadata feed folder.
- After a few minutes, open the Category metadata feed folder, and then open the output folder. A time-stamped subfolder contains a file with a name that consists of the input file name and the timestamp.
- Download and open the file.
- Based on required, preferred, and optional item specifics, you can update your Product feed with those item specific name-value pairs.