Sales Rank Feature and Wildcard Search Added
Have you ever wanted to look up a group of products and find out which one people are actually buying? Did it ever cross your mind that your website or application would be better by displaying products people are buying the most? We’ve added the sales rank feature into the Remix API that allows you to do just that.
How does it work?
http://api.remix.bestbuy.com/v1/products?apiKey=<YourKeyHere>&show=sku,name,salesRankShortTerm,salesRankMediumTerm,salesRankLongTerm&sort=salesRankShortTerm
This example will show you SKU, name, and sales rank for short, medium, and long term. It will also sort the results by the short-term rank, you can sort by medium and long-term as well. As usual you can filter out your call by category, etc.
Example using category filter:
http://api.remix.bestbuy.com/v1/products(categoryPath.id=abcat0502000)?apiKey=<YourKeyHere>&show=sku,name,salesRankShortTerm,salesRankMediumTerm,salesRankLongTerm&sort=salesRankShortTerm
What are the term lengths?
Short-Term = 3 days
Medium-Term = 2 weeks
Long-Term = 1 year
Was anything else changed?
You can now perform a wild card search in your API call.
Example:
http://api.remix.bestbuy.com/v1/products(color=*)?apiKey=<YourKeyHere>&show=name,color
We are updating our documentation to support these features. We know you can put them to good use!
If you have any questions concerning the use of sales rank or any other feature head over to our Forums (http://remix.bestbuy.com/forum) and ask for assistance!
UPDATE 6/12:
We have located a bug in the sales rank feature. All sales rank fields are not displaying correctly. This should be fixed by this coming Tuesday. Thanks for your patience!
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