Best Buy API Features: Using Keyword Search

The Best Buy Products API allows users to search by keyword, provided you know what you’re doing. Our Keyword Search function allows you to search across multiple attributes. These attributes include:
- name
- manufacturer
- shortDescription
- longDescription
- features.feature
- details.value

You can also extend the Keyword Search to be multi-word. To do this you will need to group the words together with an “ampersand” &.

EXAMPLE

Searching for a 64GB iPad would work as follows:

Anatomy of a Request:

baseURL : http://api.remix.bestbuy.com/v1/
productQuery : products(search=iPad&search=64)
APIKey : ?apiKey=YourAPIKey

Full URL:

fullURL : http://api.remix.bestbuy.com/v1/products(search=iPad&search=64)?apiKey=YourAPIKey

HINT: Don’t forget that all-important “ampersand” &! Otherwise if there are multiple words in a search it returns an “or” | result. In the above example, if we did not include the & that would return results for all iPad models AND all tablets, phones, computers, cameras and more with 64GB. That’s considerably more results than you probably want to wade through.