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Here you can find downloadable copies of the data in the UPC Database. Each full download contains a file of Manufacturers by manufacturer code, and a file of items by UPC. The files are ASCII text, comma-separated values (CSV), without column headings. Text fields are quoted as necessary. These files should easily be readable by MS Access (if that's your thing), or Text::CSV (if Perl's your thing). The item file will NOT be readable in full by Excel because of Excel's limit of 65,535 data rows. The CSV files are bundled together with tar and compressed with gzip. If you still don't know what any of this means, then there is information for you here and here .
The incremental downloads are in diff(1) format. The filenames specify the two dates compared to create the diff. If you have an older full download, you can save download time by downloading and applying the diffs (with patch(1)) rather than downloading the entire database. The diff files are compress with gzip(1).
As of 14 July 2006, the license has changed:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.
Questions? You can send email to webmaster@geekthing.com. I can't guarantee an answer, or even a response, but I do my best...
Incremental Releases
| Date | File | Size |
|---|---|---|
| 01 May 2008 | upcdatabase-2008.04.01-2008.05.01.diff.gz | 403.62KB |
| 01 Apr 2008 | upcdatabase-2008.03.01-2008.04.01.diff.gz | 3.1MB |
| 01 Mar 2008 | upcdatabase-2008.02.01-2008.03.01.diff.gz | 173.9KB |
| 01 Feb 2008 | upcdatabase-2008.01.01-2008.02.01.diff.gz | 209.86KB |
| 01 Jan 2008 | upcdatabase-2007.12.01-2008.01.01.diff.gz | 221.17KB |
| 01 Dec 2007 | upcdatabase-2007.11.01-2007.12.01.diff.gz | 219.59KB |
| 01 Nov 2007 | upcdatabase-2007.10.01-2007.11.01.diff.gz | 174.06KB |
| 01 Oct 2007 | upcdatabase-2007.09.01-2007.10.01.diff.gz | 167.17KB |
| 01 Sep 2007 | upcdatabase-2007.08.01-2007.09.01.diff.gz | 469.27KB |
| 01 Aug 2007 | upcdatabase-2007.07.01-2007.08.01.diff.gz | 183.5KB |
Full Releases
| Date | File | Size |
|---|---|---|
| 01 May 2008 | upcdatabase-2008.05.01.tar.gz | 17.13MB |
| 01 Apr 2008 | upcdatabase-2008.04.01.tar.gz | 17.03MB |
| 01 Mar 2008 | upcdatabase-2008.03.01.tar.gz | 15.61MB |
| 01 Feb 2008 | upcdatabase-2008.02.01.tar.gz | 15.5MB |
| 01 Jan 2008 | upcdatabase-2008.01.01.tar.gz | 15.36MB |
| 01 Dec 2007 | upcdatabase-2007.12.01.tar.gz | 15.21MB |
| 01 Nov 2007 | upcdatabase-2007.11.01.tar.gz | 15.07MB |
| 01 Oct 2007 | upcdatabase-2007.10.01.tar.gz | 14.96MB |
| 01 Sep 2007 | upcdatabase-2007.09.01.tar.gz | 14.85MB |
| 01 Aug 2007 | upcdatabase-2007.08.01.tar.gz | 14.57MB |
| 01 Jul 2007 | upcdatabase-2007.07.01.tar.gz | 14.47MB |