Wine.com Provides API for Commercial Use

The online shop Wine.com recently started offering a full featured API (currently in beta phase).

Wine.com on the usage:

"All users are signed up for “Developer” plan by default, with limited access to data and a limit of 1,000 calls per day. To request an evaluation to receive full access to the data within the Wine.com API and additional call per day please send your user name and an active URL or screenshots of your proposed use to bizdev@wine.com. We want people to use our API, and most people will be given “Premium” access for free once we have reviewed your plans to use the data."

The API is explicitly approved for commercial use. Q&A on the commercial usage conditions of the API can be found here. Wine.com has also set up a forum for API issues.

Contents can be called over the API as XML or JSON. ReadWriteWeb wrote an article back in July 2007 when Wine.com first released an RSS based API.

As valid now as then in the RWW article, Wine.com can leverage their API to make the site more than just a simple web 1.0 online wine catalog. The right steps on the site have been made - now it’s just a matter of developer acceptance.

A very good overview of the still rare e-commerce APIs can be found on Programmable Web.

Originally posted in German by Marcel Weiss, adapted for excitingcommerce.com by Jason Soo.