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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Earlier today an issue resulting in some out of date prices was found.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 [...]
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 [...]
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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Random thoughts for a Friday night
When we talk about Best Buy Remix we talk about a lot of things. We talk about opening our data to the world, agile in a massive enterprise and trying to do our part in making the internet a better place just to name a few.
We get asked often why people should use our API. [...]
I’m a Mac, PC and Remixer.
Kevin beat me to the punch when we talked about writing a blog post about our moving to the Mac from the windows platform. If you didn’t read his blog post check it out here. Here is my story.
My Journey to the Mac started with a decision. I’ve been a heavy Windows user for years. [...]
Remix v0 Going Away January 1st
Heads up!
The old version of the Remix API will be deactivated on January 1st. If you are still using v0 all you should have to do is put /v1 in the front of the URL. Most of the attributes remain the same, please contact me if you experience issues with different attributes and I will [...]
