Magento export shipping table of rates programatically with Mage API

Question

I am trying to export the table of rates setup in magento 1.7.0.2 - essentially what I want to do is export the contents of the table shipping_tablerate via the Mage api (rather than creating my own SQL connection)

Does anyone have any idea?

Ideally I would also like to be able to add records to this table via the Mage api

thanks

Answer 1

There is no such function in the API. However, you can create your own function for that: http://www.magentocommerce.com/api/soap/create_your_own_api.html