Get search results from eBay in Countdown API, without opening it
Hand a companion the outcome. It reads the Countdown API product datas, does the 3-operation version of the job, and stops for your click on anything that changes a record.
Open the product data. Check it against something else. Write the change. Move to the next one. That is the Countdown API afternoon nobody can hand off, and a companion does the whole pass and gives you back the batch, with nothing changed until you say so.
What it can do is exactly what Countdown API exposes to an account you authorise and nothing beyond it: 3 operations, 3 reads and no writes. In practice that means it can get search results from eBay, get product reviews and get a product data, and work across the product datas, product reviews and search results.
The Countdown API API stops at Countdown API. A companion does not. The same run opens the customer's website, the supplier portal, the internal tool somebody built in 2019, because it is working the browser you are already signed into rather than calling in from outside it.
What does it already know about your product reviews?
All 3 operations read.
Your account, not a guess at it: a companion can get search results from eBay, get product reviews and get a product data, and the full list below is the whole list, with nothing inferred from Countdown API's documentation.
The product datas are what most of this inventory is about, alongside the product reviews. A companion can hold all 3 of these operations and forty open tabs in the same pass, which is how an afternoon of Countdown API admin becomes a queue you review.
- Get Search Results from eBay
- Get Product Reviews
- Get Product Data
Nothing writes back. So what moves the product datas?
Through the screens you already use.
Countdown API exposes no write operation to a connected account, so a companion drives Countdown API in the session you are already signed into instead, filling the same forms you would to move a product data, and anything consequential stops for an approval card before it happens.
That is the ordinary case rather than the exception. Most of what a product data in Countdown API touches has no API pointed at it, and a companion is useful precisely because it does not need one.
What does the recurring product datas pass look like?
Yes.
Saved as a routine, the Countdown API product datas pass runs at the hour you pick: the Monday sweep, the overnight refresh, the Friday check. Keep Awake holds the machine awake for the length of a run, so a scheduled pass finishes with the lid closed.
The operations playbook catalogues the other recurring shapes of store admin, the Countdown API product datas sweep among them, and finished runs are published at real runs.
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