# Product Export via Plugin

## Overview

In order to do product export via plugin, you must:

- Be authenticated user

For information on how you can authenticate, see: [Authentication](https://developer.sellercloud.com/dev-article/authentication/)

As soon as you do authentication and receive a valid token, it needs to be passed on the call to the server.

## Plugins

Getting available plugins can be done from here:

[https://tt.api.sellercloud.com/rest/api/Catalog/Exports/ViaPlugin/Metadata](https://tt.api.sellercloud.com/rest/api/Catalog/Exports/ViaPlugin/Metadata)

Current example is for TT server. For your server it will be:

**https://{server\_id}.api.sellercloud.com/rest/api/Catalog/Exports/ViaPlugin/Metadata**

Plugin will be used for doing products export.

## Endpoint for exporting via Plugin

Example for such endpoint for **TT** server is [https://tt.api.sellercloud.com/rest/api/Catalog/ViaPlugin](https://tt.api.sellercloud.com/rest/api/Catalog/ViaPlugin)

For your server:

**https://{server\_id}.api.sellercloud.com/rest/api/Catalog/ViaPlugin**

## Request

- Method Type: **HttpPost**
- Authorization: Use **Bearer Token** 
+ token received from token authentication
- Header info: **Content-Type: application/json**

### Request Model

|     |     |     |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Field Name | Type | Description |
| PluginProfileKey | string | Plugin key received from above endpoint. |
| FileFormat | string | File format type of exported data.<br>```<br>TAB_Delimited = 0<br>CSV = 1<br>Excel = 2<br>``` |
| ProductIds | Array of strings | List of product SKUs. |

## Response

- If user is authenticated then response will be **Status Code 200 => OK** and a queued job link.
- If user is not authenticated, then response will be **Status Code 401 => Not Valid Token**
- On server response => **Status Code 500 => Internal Server Error**

## Demo in c#

```csharp
private static string token = "test token";

static async Task GetFirstPlugin()
{
    string url = $"http://cwa.api.sellercloud.com/api/Catalog/Exports/ViaPlugin/Metadata";

using (HttpClient client = new HttpClient())
    {
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Bearer", token);
        HttpResponseMessage responseMessage = await client.GetAsync(url);

var content = responseMessage.Content
                                         .ReadAsStringAsync()
                                         .Result;

var profiles = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(content);
        return profiles.Plugins
                       .First()
                       .Key;
    }
}

static async Task Export(string plugin)
{
    string url = $"http://cwa.api.sellercloud.com/api/Catalog/Exports/ViaPlugin";
    var content = new ExportRequest()
    {
        ProductIds = new string[] { "test" },
        PluginProfileKey = plugin,
        FileFormat = FileFormat.Excel
    };

using (var client = new HttpClient())
    using (var request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, url))
    {
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Bearer", token);

var json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(content);
        using (var stringContent = new StringContent(json, Encoding.UTF8, "application/json"))
        {
            request.Content = stringContent;

HttpResponseMessage responseMessage = await client.SendAsync(request);
            var jobLink = await responseMessage.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
        }
    }
}

static async Task Main(string[] args)
{
    var plugin = await GetFirstPlugin();

var jobLink = await Export(plugin);
}
```