{"id":2364,"date":"2020-09-24T12:38:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T12:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.itscope.hostpress.me\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=2364"},"modified":"2026-03-11T17:09:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:09:59","slug":"differences-api-2-1-to-api-1-0","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/guide.itscope.com\/en\/kb\/differences-api-2-1-to-api-1-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Differences API 2.1 to API 1.0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ITscope API 2.0<br><br>An easy way to learn the ITscope API 2.1, the <a href=\"https:\/\/guide.itscope.com\/en\/kb\/interactive-api\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Interactive API<\/a> .<br><br>We recommend upgrading to this latest version for our customers using API 1.0.<br><br>Innovations, enhancements and improvements over the API version 1.0:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The performance of the releases, whether exports or API methods, through the API 2.1 is much better than through the API 1.0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There are only 2<a href=\"https:\/\/guide.itscope.com\/en\/kb\/data-formats-and-output-formats\/\"> more clearly arranged data format profiles<\/a> for products available\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/guide.itscope.com\/en\/kb\/format-description-for-products-data-format-standard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Standard<\/a> &#8211; provides the data in easily usable form ready &#8211; as a flat CSV files, or XML, or JSON format with product, supplier, property and cross-selling data<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/guide.itscope.com\/en\/kb\/format-description-for-product-data-format-standardupdate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Standard Update<\/a> &#8211; this can be used to efficiently hourly adjustment of prices and availability<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All <a href=\"https:\/\/guide.itscope.com\/en\/kb\/data-formats-and-output-formats\/\">three output formats<\/a> &#8211; CSV, XML and JSON &#8211; have the same contents, which in the end brings benefits through a uniform sequence and clearer naming of fields. 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