Chinavasion Data Feeds

This page is for more advanced Registered Chinavasion Customers who are interested in:

• How to track which products have run out of stock and are therefore unavailable temporarily
• How to track previously out-of-stock products which are now restocked and available again
• How to track which products are permanently closed and not coming back
• How to see which products are going offline soon
• How to track new products and special discount offers as soon as they are added to Chinavasion
• How to get a list of all products and shipping prices
• How to download product images easily for advertising products on your own site or auctions

If you want help on any of these topics, simply open a live chat 24/7 or email our customer support.

If you have suggestions how we can help you better, please also feel free to send us your ideas.

Quick Answers

How to track which products are out of stock or going offline soon

On the individual product page of the web shop, it will tell you if the product is unavailable and when it is coming back. Products soon expected to go offline will also tell you.

If you want lists of products recently gone offline, or put back in stock, see our Product Status Log, more notes below.

See also the Data Lists section below.

How to track new products and special discount offers as soon as they are added to Chinavasion

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The New Products Page is at http://www.chinavasion.com/new - You can subscribe to its RSS feed, see the RSS section below.

The Special Offers page is at http://www.chinavasion.com/specials - This also has an RSS feed, see below.

How to get a list of all products and shipping prices

See the Data Lists and Datafeeds topics below.

How to download product images easily for advertising products on your own site or auctions

See the Product Images section below.

RSS Feeds

Chinavasion provides you with RSS feeds so you can track products and news with an RSS reader.

Here is a list of our main RSS feeds:

• New Products http://rss.chinavasion.com/new_products.xml
• Special Discount Offers http://rss.chinavasion.com/specials.xml
• Chinavasion Blog http://blog.chinavasion.com/index.php/feed/ or via Feedburner http://feeds.feedburner.com/ChinavasionChinaGadgetsBlog

If you are only interested in following one category, every category has its own RSS feed, which you can find in the address bar of your browser when in the category.

For example in the category Android Phones the RSS feed is http://rss.chinavasion.com/android-phones.xml

If you want to learn about what RSS is and how to use it, click here.

Data Lists

We currently provide some data lists in Google Spreadsheets, which means you can view the data online, or download it and open in Excel.

Currently you can find:

1. A spreadsheet of the recently added new products.
2. A list of the products that are going offline soon. You can also view all these soon-to-be-discontinued products in one page on our shop here.
3. A list of all the products on special offer currently.
4. A list of all accessories which we can offer, such as spare batteries,earphones, cables etc that match the main products you are ordering. You can also search for accessories in our shop by using the model code.

Click here to go to the main Data Lists page.

Product Status Log

Similar to our Data Lists described above, we also currently offer 2 different Google Spreadsheets for:

1. A list of all the products that are currently in stock. Therefore products NOT on this list are out of stock.
2. A log showing which products ran out and closed on each day, going back several weeks, as well as which products have come back online after being restocked.

Click here to go to the Product Status Log main page.

Datafeeds

We are currently offering a Beta test of category datafeeds to our awesome Gold and Platinum level Members. If you are at that level of awesomeness, talk to your sales rep. The datafeed includes shipping prices as well as everything else you need (hopefully everything!). This is not available to normal customers. Chinavasion does not make available any shipping tables.

We will soon offer a useful newsletter explaining for dropshippers where you can get instant shop-builder systems using Chinavasion datafeeds without having to do the custom programming yourself.

If you are a Chinavasion Web Referral Affiliate in our Affiliates Program, we make available a full datafeed for that purpose. Our Affiliates feed is pre-loadedinto various instant shop/offer builder software, which you can find out about after joining the program.

Product Images

If you are sourcing from us and selling Chinavasion products as your business, on your own website or on Amazon, eBay etc, you can use Chinavasion's product images. See our Fair Use Policy here. To use pictures, you should download /save the image and re-upload it wherever you are using it, on your website hosting or eBay etc. Don't hot link using the original Chinavasion image URL as it is not nice and your images might stop working if we see it.

Because they are awesome, Gold and Platinum level Chinavasion members can get a ZIP file of product images from each product page on our site. If you are a Gold or Platinum customer, check it out or ask your sales rep for help.