So, for the last couple of days, I’ve been working on a coding project for Proton Paperie & Press — getting a custom shop set up on www.protonpaperie.com. I use etsy for most of my sales these days — they provide a great e-commerce platform with built in traffic, so I didn’t want to change that… but I did want customers visiting my website to be able to see everything I sell there easily. I wanted an easy method that would update my website automatically anytime I changed a listing through etsy….
Luckily, etsy provides an api that’s great for this! Getting this set up does take a little bit of coding knowledge, but it’s nothing too scary. In fact, I knew nothing about accessing apis or writing jQuery 2 days ago, but my shop is up and running beautifully (click below to check out the live version):
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