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        Uploads a product to your Merchant Center account. If an item with the same channel, contentLanguage, offerId, and targetCountry already exists, this method updates that entry.
      
      
        
          HTTP request
          POST https://shoppingcontent.googleapis.com/content/v2.1/{merchantId}/products
        
        
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                merchantId | 
                
                   string 
                  The ID of the account that contains the product. This account cannot be a multi-client account. 
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                feedId | 
                
                   string 
                  The Content API Supplemental Feed ID. If present then product insertion applies to the data in a supplemental feed. 
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          Request body
          The request body contains an instance of Product.
        
        
          Response body
          If successful, the response body contains a newly created instance of Product.
        
        
          Authorization scopes
          Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:
          
            https://www.googleapis.com/auth/content 
          
For more information, see the OAuth 2.0 Overview.
        
      
      
    
  
  
  
 
  
    
    
      
       
    
    
  
  
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      [null,null,["Last updated 2025-02-25 UTC."],[],["This document details the process of uploading a product to a Merchant Center account via the Content API. It uses a `POST` request to `https://shoppingcontent.googleapis.com/content/v2.1/{merchantId}/products`. The `merchantId` is a required path parameter. An optional `feedId` query parameter can specify a supplemental feed. The request body contains `Product` data. A successful response returns a new `Product` instance.  Authorization requires the `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/content` OAuth scope. Existing products matching channel, language, offerId, and country will be updated.\n"]]