I just came across an old entry of the Exciting Ecommerce blog (German) which tells that Spreadshirt.net, one of Germany’s hottest Internet startups, has a SOAP interface. spreadshirt.net itself seems to be developed in PHP, and so I started my IDE and played a bit with it.
At the moment, it seems to be just a bit of a playground. Some lines of code are good enough to start:
<?php
$wsdl = 'http://www.spreadshirt.net/services.php?wsdl';
$client = new SoapClient($wsdl, array('exceptions' => 0, 'trace' => 1));
$session_token = $client->initialize_session(62466);
$s = microtime(true);
$articles = $client->get_articles($session_token, 62466);
$e = microtime(true);
$d = $e-$s;
print "Duration: $d<br />";
var_dump($articles);
But as I said, Spreadshirt needs some more work here – it takes roughly 40-60 seconds to get all the articles (about 300) of this shop. This is definitely too long for creating small applications like shopping widgets etc.
