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The API release history
The following table lists the Marketplace Insights API releases:
| Release Version | Release Date | Description of Release |
|---|---|---|
| v1_beta.1.6 | 2023-02-27 |
The following translations have been added in this release:
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| v1_beta.1.5 | 2022-10-03 |
The following changes have been made in this release:
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| v1_beta.1.4 | 2020-11-10 | English text may now be translated into either Portuguese or Russian, and German text can be translated into English |
| v1_beta.1.3 | 2020-07-08 | English and German text may now be translated into either French, Italian, or Spanish |
| v1_beta.1.2 | 2020-06-08 | Added support for English-to-Japanese translations |
| v1_beta.1.1 | 2020-06-08 |
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| v1_beta.1.0 | 2020-01-14 | Added item description for English-to-Chinese translations |
| v1_beta.0.0 | 2019-11-08 | Initial API release |
v1_beta.1.6
The following changes were made in this release.
New translation support
The following translations are now supported:
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French into:
- English
- German
- Italian
- Spanish
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Italian into:
- English
- German
- French
- Spanish
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Spanish into:
- English
- German
- French
- Italian
- Chinese (Mandarin) into English
v1_beta.1.5
The following changes were made in this release.
Change in the maximum length of the description
The maximum length of the ITEM_DESCRIPTION had been 100,000 characters, including markup/tags. This maximum has been reduced to 20,000 characters, but markup/tags no longer contribute to this maximum value.
New translation support
The following translations are now supported:
- German into Polish
- Polish into German
New enumeration value added
To support the new translations, the following value has been added to the LanguageEnum type:
pl(Polish)
Error message updates
The message for the following error code has been updated to:
- 110007: Markups are not supported in input texts for title translation context.
The following new error code has been added:
- 11008: Input text missing.
v1_beta.1.4
The following changes were made in this release.
Three new translations supported
English text may now be translated into either Portuguese or Russian. German text may now be translated into English.
New enumeration values added
To support the new translations, the following values were added to the LanguageEnum type:
pt(Portuguese)ru(Russian)
v1_beta.1.3
The following changes were made in this release.
Six new translations supported
English and German text may now be translated into either French, Italian, or Spanish.
New enumeration values added
To support the new translations, the following values were added to the LanguageEnum type:
fr(French)it(Italian)es(Spanish)
v1_beta.1.2
The following change was made in this release.
English to Japanese translations now supported
English to Japanese translations are now supported. Since Japanese to English translations were already supported, and ja was already a value in the LanguageEnum type, there were no schema updates necessary for this release.
v1_beta.1.1
The following sections describe the change made in this release.
Updated translation context support
Translations from English to German, and from Japanese to English, now support the ITEM_DESCRIPTION LanguageEnum type.
Updated text field string length
The maximum string length for the ITEM_TITLE enumeration value has been increased to 1,000 characters. The maximum string length for the ITEM_DESCRIPTION enumeration value remains at 100,000 characters.
v1_beta.1.0
You can now translate the description of the item from English to Chinese. To support this, the ITEM_DESCRIPTION enumeration value was added to the LanguageEnum type.
v1_beta.0.0
This is the initial release of this API.
There is only one method for the initial release. Use this call to translate strings related to items listed for sale.
POST /commerce/translation/v1_beta/translate