Getting Product information like name, price etc using barcode number

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I am developing an app which uses `barcode` to get the product information of items after scanning the `barcode`. I don't want the user to install `ZXing barcode` app separately so I embedded the `ZXing` code into my project. So I was able to obtain the `barcode ID number`. I want to get the product information like name, manufacturer, price etc using the bar code number using google search api for shopping. Here is the code I have used ``` public class JSONExampleActivity extends Activity { TextView httpStuff; DefaultHttpClient client; JSONObject json; final static String URL = "https://www.googleapis.com/shopping/search"; String upc = "/v1/public/products?country=US&q=691464717759&restrictBy=gtin=691464717759"; /** Called when the activity is first created. */ @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main); httpStuff = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.tvHttp); client = new DefaultHttpClient(); new Read().exec…

Accepted Answer

Try adding on your API id to the url. https://developers.google.com/shopping-search/v1/getting_started#getting-started

I tried it and was able to get the information of Michael Kors MK5412 Chronograph Watches based of the url of your code.

https://www.googleapis.com/shopping/search/v1/public/products?country=US&q=691464717759&restrictBy=gtin=691464717759&key={your key here}

As a result, you have to fix your url builder to match ^.

Also make sure you put

```
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
```

in your manifest. Credit to this guy: http://androidforums.com/developer-101/100793-java-net-unknownhostexception.html.

Happy coding :)

Getting Product information like name, price etc using barcode number

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