Overview

This extension improves default features of Magento API.

It allows you to:

• Associate simple products to configurable or grouped product;
• Specify category names rather than the ids;
• Specify the name of the attribute set rather than the id;
• Specify options labels rather than the ids;
• Specify the website code rather than the id.

Installation

Magento CE 1.6+

Install with modgit:

$ cd /path/to/magento
$ modgit init
$ modgit -e README.md clone jr-api https://github.com/jreinke/magento-improve-api.git

or download package manually:

• Download latest version here
• Unzip in Magento root folder
• Clean cache

How to associate simple products to configurable/grouped product

I wrote an article for this, click here.