Entire Catalog Archives

What does it do?
In listening to a need of the Best Buy Remix Community, we now have API archive files available for use to our developers.
What is the purpose and use of the archives?
The archives are basically a snapshot in time of the data available in the API. You lose the real-time capability of making direct calls to the API but in return you achieve greater local speed and manipulation ability of the archives. This will help especially if you are holding or inducting a database for your website or app.

The Archives
           Base URL: http://api.remix.bestbuy.com/{version}/{API}.{format}.zip
          Curent Version: V1
          HTTP Method: GET
Attributes
Each query URL will have required and optional parameters that must be included to complete a query.
Parameters Required Options
apiKey yes String Value
For more information, see Requesting a Key.
XML Basic Examples
#1 This is the most basic query that will return the entire Archive for products in XML format.
          http://api.remix.bestbuy.com/v1/products.xml.zip?apiKey={YourApiKey}
#2 This is the most basic query that will return the entire Archive for stores in XML format.
          http://api.remix.bestbuy.com/v1/stores.xml.zip?apiKey={YourApiKey}
#3 This is the most basic query that will return the entire Archive for categories in XML format.
          http://api.remix.bestbuy.com/v1/categories.xml.zip?apiKey={YourApiKey}
JSON Basic Examples
#1 This is the most basic query that will return the entire Archive for products in JSON format.
          http://api.remix.bestbuy.com/v1/products.json.zip?apiKey={YourApiKey}
#2 This is the most basic query that will return the entire Archive for stores in JSON format.
          http://api.remix.bestbuy.com/v1/stores.json.zip?apiKey={YourApiKey}
#3 This is the most basic query that will return the entire Archive for categories in JSON format.
          http://api.remix.bestbuy.com/v1/categories.json.zip?apiKey={YourApiKey}
Additional Information:
 When is it updated?
The archives will be updated daily by 9AM CST. It is not updated throughout the day like the real-time API.
How can you benefit from using this and getting updates?
There are probably plenty of creative ways you can come up with to implement a system to download the full archive and get updates on the items throughout the day but I'll share a simple one for example.
Basic Examples
#1 This is a way to get all products that were updated today or any date you specify. Change itemUpdateDate to the date you are checking.
          http://api.remix.bestbuy.com/v1/products(itemUpdateDate=2009-05-07)?apiKey={API KEY HERE}

version 4 as of 6 months ago by Bryan Brandau - Remix Team

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