亚马逊MWS / PHP /获得所有订单

Question

i'm trying to get ALL orders from amazon mws. i'm aware that i can only get 100 times at a time and need to use the "nextToken2" for paging through the data. however, what i'm not getting is how to set setCreatedAfter and setCreatedBefore for the request .. i find it very confusing that MWS expects both values to be set.

i found this code snippet:

$t1 = date("c", time()-2*24*60*60);
$t2 = date("c", time()-1*24*60*60);
$request = new MarketplaceWebServiceOrders_Model_ListOrdersRequest();
$request->setSellerId(MERCHANT_ID);
$request->setMarketplaceId(marketplace_id);
$request->setCreatedAfter($t1);
$request->setCreatedBefore($t2);

it will get all orders within the past 30 days. but how can i get ALL orders?

Answer 1

To get all orders via ListOrders, set your setCreatedAfter date to a date before the earliest order that was ever taken. Set the setCreatedBefore date to the current date/time. This is just simply a range of dates for which you want orders returned. You need to create a range big enough to cover all orders.

After your first call, check for a NextToken. If it exists, you have more orders, so start a loop until NextToken is empty. Once it's empty, you have all orders.

Be aware of throttling issues. You may have to slow your operation down.

Another way is to use the Reports API, which avoids throttling issues, but has extra steps to set up.