Archive for December, 2009
Pricing Issue Located and Solved Today (12/20)
Earlier today an issue resulting in some out of date prices was found. Remix was reporting no prices updated for today (12/20).
We worked through the day to narrow down the issue. Once the issue was found it took some time to re-publish the updates. The cache on our end was then cleared to ensure everyone [...]
What the Heck do All Of These Update Dates Mean?
For those of you that have actually played around in the API a bit (if you haven’t I highly encourage you to), you may have noticed that we have a multitude of update dates for various things in the API. I frequently receive questions about what they all mean, how are they different, etc. I’m [...]
Reminder: We Place Extra No Restrictions on Mobile Applications!
I’m not sure how many of you do or don’t know about this, but some other product based APIs out there make you ask permission to use their data on mobile applications or implementations.
I would just like to take the time to point out that we place no restrictions on using our data in mobile [...]
Products and Stores Archives Unavailable UPDATE(1&2)
Our Products and Stores API Archives are currently unavailable. The Store Availability and Categories Archives appear to be working correctly.
Updates will be provided as I receive them.
UPDATE 1: The archives are still unavailable. We currently plan on the archives being available by end of business today. Further updates will be provided when possible.
UPDATE 2: Archives [...]
Announcing the Napster API Preview!
Recently our counterparts over at Napster were discussing the upcoming release of the Napster API with us. The first preview was available at the Music Hack Day in Boston in November. While we were discussing I had asked if we should help connect the Remix community with the new API and run a preview for [...]
Schrodinger’s Category.
Investigating a recent comment in our forums, we ran into something kind of tricky.
Jonny is looking for the child products of three categories on bestbuy.com that, it turns out, don’t actually have any child products in our systems.
Here’s one of them on bestbuy.com: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Televisions/LCD-TVs/pcmcat193400050017.c?id=pcmcat193400050017 – 166 products as I write this.
And in Remix: http://api.remix.bestbuy.com/v1/products%28categoryPath.id=pcmcat193400050017%29?apiKey=bvn7tg3ftneqbun2h67ae7nu&show=name,sku,regularPrice,salePrice – [...]
quick PHP example using curl
I wanted to take a moment to write a quick example using PHP to grab some results from the Remix API. You will need the ability to run curl in PHP. If you’re unsure, please check the PHP docs here. The following example displays the full array on the page, an array for one product [...]
API Performance and 504 Errors
We’ve been noticing an increase of 504 errors in our reporting as well as I’ve recieved some comments from users about the API being slower to respond than normal.
We are aware of the 504 issue, and this will be fixed in a release next week so stay tuned for that update. Thanks in advance for [...]
TopCoder and Remix Work Featured in Weekly Ad
Over on the Remix Challenge site I put up a cool little announcement about how the work that was performed with the help of the TopCoder community ended up getting some love in the Best Buy Weekly Ad Insert.
It’s a cool story, proves that not all of the good ideas are found internally, and shows [...]
API Archives Currently Unavailable UPDATE: Files Available!
It appears that our full API Archives are unavailable right now. We are investigating the issue and I will provide an update on this blog post as well as on our twitter account (@bestbuyremix) when I have more information.
UPDATE: Archive files are now available. Thank you for your patience.
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