Price History API: How to Tell Readers Whether a Black Friday Deal Is Real

A Black Friday listing claims a sale price against a higher regular price. Three checks on real daily price history show whether that higher price was ever charged, plus a short script a deal page can use.

Asking an AI Assistant to Search Products Through MCP: Sample Prompts and What Comes Back

Shows how to ask an AI assistant to search products through the Affiliate.com MCP server in plain English, with sample prompts, what each one returned in testing, and credit costs.

How Price History Helps a Reader Trust a Deal

Explains how price history lets a deal page show evidence instead of a claim, using 91 days of prices for one air fryer to show how sales start, end and repeat.

The Same Product, Fourteen Different Price Histories

Compares 14 retailer listings of the same air fryer, matched by barcode, to show how price history reveals shared promotion windows and how the cheapest store changes over time.

How a Fashion Product Data API Lets Apps Show Only the Sizes That Are Actually In Stock

Shows how a fashion product data API returns one record per size with its own availability, so apps can show only sizes in stock, and how merchants differ in reporting sold-out sizes.

Fashion Product Data API: Search Clothing by Brand, Color, Size, and Gender Across Retailers

Walks through searching clothing by brand, color, size and gender with a fashion product data API, using live results to show what each filter returns and what cleanup remains.

How Often Should Product Pages Be Updated? A Plain-English Guide to Keeping Content Fresh

Gives a plain answer to how often product pages should be updated, based on how often data refreshes at six retailers, with a suggested schedule and a script to check your own list.

Planning Holiday Content With Product Data: What to Check Before Gift Guide Season

Lists seven product data checks to run in October before writing a gift guide, such as stock levels, sales and update times, using live search results from October 6, 2026.

Product Data MCP vs. Product Data API: Choosing the Right Layer for Your AI Build

Explains the difference between the Product Data API and the Product Data MCP server, which reach the same catalog, and when each layer fits a fixed backend query or a model-driven one.

Grounding an LLM's Product Recommendations in Live Merchant Data Instead of Training Data

Explains why an LLM's training data cannot track live prices and stock, and how grounding product recommendations in live merchant data with a retrieval step fixes staleness.

How Shopping Agents Should Handle Out-of-Stock and Price-Changed Offers

Describes how AI shopping agents can handle out-of-stock and price-changed offers by filtering on availability, keeping alternate merchants, and re-checking price when they act.

What First-Party and Third-Party Seller Data Means for Affiliate Teams

Explains the seller party field, which marks a listing as first-party, third-party or unknown, and why it matters for commission, price stability and what an affiliate team promotes.

How AI Shopping Agents Choose a Merchant When Ten Offer the Same Product

Explains how AI shopping agents choose a merchant when many offer the same product, starting with barcode matching to confirm identity before comparing price and availability.

How to Layer Product Search API Filters for More Precise AI Shopping Results

Shows how to layer Product Search API filters such as brand, price, discount and availability, moving from a broad search to a precise result set for AI shopping applications.

Three Ways AI Applications Can Use the Product Search API Endpoint to Retrieve Products

Describes three ways an AI application can use the POST /v1/products Product Search API endpoint, from broad keyword retrieval to layered filters that enforce price and availability.

Updated at vs. Added at: Two Different Freshness Signals in Affiliate.com's Product Data

Explains how Updated at and Added at differ as freshness signals in product data, one showing how recently a record changed and the other when it entered the dataset.

Matching Electronics Products by Spec Fields Alongside Barcode and MPN

Explains how to match electronics products using barcode and MPN as the main identifiers, with spec fields like brand, model and color used as supporting evidence.

MCP or REST API? Connecting Your AI Agent to Affiliate.com Product Data

Compares MCP and the REST API for connecting an AI agent to Affiliate.com product data, and walks through adding Affiliate.com as a custom connector in Claude.

Product Data API for Multiple Retailers: Search Titles, Images, Prices, and Availability

Shows how a product data API for multiple retailers lets teams search titles, images, prices and availability through one normalized dataset instead of querying each merchant separately.

Multi Retailer Product Search API: Search Product Data Across Thousands of Merchants with Affiliate.com

Explains how a multi retailer product search API lets teams search normalized product data across many merchants, starting with keywords and adding filters like brand, price and stock.

What More Than a Billion Normalized Products Changes About Product Research

Explains how a dataset of more than a billion normalized products changes product research, moving it from checking merchants one at a time to querying the whole market by criteria.

Search Products Across Multiple Retailers by Keyword With the Affiliate.com API

Explains how to search products across multiple retailers by keyword with the Affiliate.com API, starting broad with the Any field and layering brand, stock, currency and price.

Making Sense of Large Affiliate Catalogs With Product Identifiers

Explains how product identifiers such as barcode, GTIN, UPC, MPN and SKU help distinguish products in large affiliate catalogs where product names alone are not reliable.

From 30 Networks to One Query Layer: Practical Uses for Normalized Product Data at Scale

Describes practical uses for a normalized product data layer across more than 30 networks, including barcode matching, filtering by price and availability, and scoping by merchant.

How AI Agents Can Search Affiliate.com Products and Merchants Through ZeroClick

Explains how AI agents can search Affiliate.com products and merchants through ZeroClick, which handles agent access and payment while Affiliate.com supplies the product data.