Edge Add-ons Publish API : Why is there no API to update description box for each of the languages ?

[ishandutta2007]

Edge Add on Publish API really solves very trivial stuff and not the time consuming stuff.
I found this out hard way.

Heres is the discussion from MS Q&A:

I have been exploring ways to automatically publishing edge addons end to end for all languages via API, From docs it is not at all clear to me how to update the description box via API,

Since manually opening and updating each of the description box for all the languages is very time consuming and tiring, I would like to update them via API. (please check screenshot to understand the field I intend) Please let me know how to do that .

PS: I am not looking for automated translation, I already have that via some 3rd party api, I am looking for publishing these Description texts to ms partner center automatically

Unfortunately, there's no such API. You can only edit the Description in Partner Center manually. You could check [this doc](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/extensions-chromium/publish/api/using-addons-api#using-the-api-endpoints) and there's a note explaining this: There's no API for creating a new product or updating a product's metadata. For example, the description. You must complete these tasks manually in Microsoft Partner Center.

I have never understood the point of creating a publish API which does the trivial things and not the time consuming stuff.

Uploading the zip is one click process anyway, what is the point in creating an API for that if you have to update the description boxes of all the 60 languages manually killing hours of your time and energy.

Anyways thanks for confirming.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1624207/automatically-publish-edge-add-on-end-to-end-for-a?page=1&orderby=helpful&comment=answer-1482911