Features-to-Consider Thread

[JSN]

I’ve been playing around with WP and AA Plugin for the past 8-9 months and kept on building small utils and automations to run micro workflows. Was curious to share some thoughts in case anyone else, including the author finds them useful 🙂

1. When inserting ASINs, we are limited to a single item at a time (correct me if I am wrong). And since we can execute batch inserts, wouldn’t it make sense to be able to paste a list/array of these in a single shot. When I do my product analysis I build ASIN lists then add them.
2. A step further would have been to add custom REST endpoints to enable inserting/querying products via an API call (maybe in a paid version as its a bit of work, though Claude could probably pump it out pretty close)
3. Similarly to how you can copy ASIN or AAID via a button click, have some minimalist export for ASIN/ AAID pairs (currently have to scrape for those from the UI via a script to feed into one of my automation pipelines)

[pizza2mozzarella]

Hello @seljicom ,
let me try to answer your cool suggestions.

1. When inserting ASINs, we are limited to a single item at a time (correct me if I am wrong). And since we can execute batch inserts, wouldn’t it make sense to be able to paste a list/array of these in a single shot. When I do my product analysis I build ASIN lists then add them.

It was possibile in earlier versions but created issues. When you insert an ASIN or a product link in the editable field then that data is purified and queued to the ASIN list in the correct JSON format. This one by one process ensures the construction of an ASIN list that is always compatible with the API call requirements and does not return errors. While it is possible to just copypaste a 10 item list of ASINs and still make the system work, we also must acknowledge the fact that not every user knows how to make a a valid JSON item compatible list. This little freedom may lead to more errors than benefits. However since you are the proof that there more advanced users of this plugin I will need to rethink of this process to facilitate your workflow 😀

2. A step further would have been to add custom REST endpoints to enable inserting/querying products via an API call (maybe in a paid version as its a bit of work, though Claude could probably pump it out pretty close)

It’s a bit of work, indeed. For the moment I’m striving to make it usable for humans through the UI, but yeah, I should start thinking about AI agents and automations…

3. Similarly to how you can copy ASIN or AAID via a button click, have some minimalist export for ASIN/ AAID pairs (currently have to scrape for those from the UI via a script to feed into one of my automation pipelines)

Do you mean a button to have the ASIN+AAID pair in one shot? Such as a [”A123456789″,”123″] JSON format? Or do you need more data to export?