I have a database of many products withing also many categories. I get the data from several suppliers whom each use their own way to describe category taxonomies. So i am looking to have a more standard approach.
Google uses product category taxonomies for Google shopping: https://www.google.com/basepages/producttype/taxonomy-with-ids.en-US.txt
When adding a shopping feed, google will try to match the product if the category taxonomy is not added manually. More info here: https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/6324436
So i was wondering since Google tries to match automatically, is there an API that supports this feature? Or is there other way to automatically match the products? I do have the EAN/UPC for each product, or alternatively the name and description.
Ideally i would send the EAN/UPS to an API which returns the category ID, but i don't seem to be able to find that solution.
As the database is rather large it would be near impossible to do a manual mapping, so that is not a solution at the moment.