Version: 1.0Updated on: October 28th, 2026 Icecat identifies a product by its GTIN, or by the combination of brand and product code. Your own catalogue identifies it by whatever your suppliers put in their feeds. Matching is the step that joins the two, so that every article in your shop knows which Icecat data sheet belongs to it. This manual explains how to do that matching yourself, on your side, using two files you can download: an index file and SuppliersList. It describes the same matching logic Icecat applies to a catalogue you upload to us, so that your result and ours agree.…
Icecat continues to receive 7.4 million bot requests per hour, while our application now runs on just one-tenth of the computing power it needed at the attack's peak. Since October 16, Icecat websites have experienced a flood of automated crawler traffic. At its peak, we recorded up to 15 million different IP addresses over two days, many disguised as regular browsers. For an open catalog used daily by brands, retailers, and marketplaces, this presents more than a traffic management challenge. When our websites slow down, the businesses that rely on our services are affected, too. During the night of October…
