Hello
Does anybody knows a way to monitor updates for a file?
We searched the API but couldn’t find such a method and the author’s RSS feed doesn’t publish item updates neither.
This is some example output for http://marketplace.envato.com/api/edge/item:150532.json
{"item":{"sales":"131","rating":"5","user":"DADU","live_preview_url":"http://s3.envato.com/files/1468485/banner.jpg","cost":"2.00","url":"http://codecanyon.net/item/the-tooltip/150532","uploaded_on":"Thu Jan 06 19:16:06 +1100 2011","tags":"tooltip, css3, speech bubble, fade transition, css3 transition, fade, effect left, center, right, hover, mouseover","thumbnail":"http://s3.envato.com/files/1468486/thumbnail.png","id":"150532","item":"The Tooltip"}}
As you can see there is an “uploaded_on” key but no “updated_on” key.
Thanks
- Author was Featured
- Beta Tester
- Bought between 10 and 49 items
- Community Moderator
- Contributed a Blog Post
- Contributed a Tutorial to a Tuts+ Site
- Exclusive Author
- Grew a moustache for the Envato Movember competition
- Has been a member for 4-5 years
Unfortunately, correct me if I’m wrong, but as far as i know there is no feature which supports this on the API .
Reaper-Media said
Unfortunately, correct me if I’m wrong, but as far as i know there is no feature which supports this on the API .
Yep. But it would be awesome if it existed. 
- Has been a member for 4-5 years
- Item was Featured
- Author was Featured
- Bought between 100 and 499 items
- Referred between 200 and 499 users
- Exclusive Author
- Microlancer Beta Tester
- Author had a Free File of the Month
There’s no feature for that generally.
An update ‘feed’ or an addition to the API would be absolutely awesome. So here’s a +1 from me. It would allow those of us who use the Envato API for our own portfolios to publish when the item was last updated (and ideally the version number). It might be possible also for us to be able to e-mail our customers (who have signed up for help forums using their purchase code) to inform them that an update is available.
Given the number of files I’ve purchased I would love to know when a file has been updated. Specially for ThemeForest files.
+1
