Change Notes

2006/04/07 - Created

2007/08/27 - Deprecated

Namespace declaration

This namespace has been deprecated and all Buy.com product RSS feeds have been changed to use Version 2.0 See documentation for Buy.com RSS 2.0 Product udule Definition Version 2.0 Available at http://www.buy.com/rss/module/productV2/

The namespace for Product RSS is defined to be: http://www.buy.com/rss/module/product/

For example:

<rss version="2.0" xmlns:product="http://www.buy.com/rss/module/product/">

Description

"Product RSS" is a new RSS module that supplements the enclosure capabilities of RSS 2.0. RSS enclosures are already being used to syndicate featured products and their images. Product RSS extends enclosures to handle specific Buy.com product information as individual elements of data so the consumer of the feed can reformat or use the information the way they desire.

Primary Elements

<product:content>

<product:content> is a sub-element of <item>. It contains specific Buy.com product content information related to in the <item> element. The sequence of these items implies the order of presentation. It contains 4 attributes, most of which are optional.

        <product:content
                sku="99999999"
                price="$99.99"
                description="Text only product description"
                imageUrl="http://ak.buy.com/db_assets/prod_images/999/99999999.jpg" />

sku is the Buy.com product SKU.

price contains the price of the product referenced.

description contains a text only description of the product referenced. This is usually a short description describing the product typically a sentence in length.

imageUrl contains the URL to the image of the product referenced.

Examples

1. A recently promoted product on the home page, using the RSS 2.0 <enclosure> element and the use of the Buy.com Product RSS module.

   <rss version="2.0" xmlns:product="http://www.buy.com/rss/module/product/">
     <channel>
       <title>Buy.com - The Internet Superstore</title> 
       <link>http://www.buy.com/rss/feed.asp?loc=273&grp=4</link> 
       <description>Home Products</description> 
       <language>en-us</language> 
       <docs>http://www.buy.com/rss/default.asp</docs> 
       <image>
         <title>Buy.com</title> 
         <url>http://ak.buy.com/buy_assets/corp/buy_logo.gif</url> 
         <link>http://www.buy.com</link> 
       </image>
       <item>
         <title>Product Title</title> 
         <description>Product Description including HTML with images and links</description> 
         <link>URL link to Product</link> 
         <pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
         <enclosure url="http://ak.buy.com/db_assets/prod_images/999/99999999.jpg" type="image/jpeg" /> 
         <product:content
               sku="99999999"
               price="$99.99"
               description="Text only product description"
               imageUrl="http://ak.buy.com/db_assets/prod_images/999/99999999.jpg" />
       </item>
     </channel>
   </rss>