Best Buy API

Best Buy runs a developer API at developer.bestbuy.com with its own key and call limits. The Scavio Best Buy API is a separate option: 9 POST endpoints that return what bestbuy.com shows today as structured JSON, on the same key as Scavio's other retailers: search, product detail with open-box prices, reviews, category and deals pages, Deal of the Day, store pickup availability, batch prices, a store locator and search suggestions.

Yes. /api/v1/bestbuy/product returns every open-box offer on a SKU by condition, fair, good and excellent, with its price, savings_vs_new, savings_vs_regular and savings_percent. The Insignia 55" F50 Fire TV was $189.99 new against a $349.99 regular price; open-box fair was $165.99, good $171.99 and excellent $176.99. To find open-box products in the first place, pass filters.open_box to search or category.

Yes. /api/v1/bestbuy/availability checks one SKU at up to 8 stores, the nearest to a ZIP or the store ids you pass, and returns each store's pickup status: in_stock, limited, ship_to_store, out_of_stock, not_available_for_pickup or unknown, with the pickup date. It costs 2 credits whatever the number of stores and takes 5 to 20 seconds.

No, because Best Buy does not publish unit counts for well-stocked items, and we do not invent them: quantity is null for in_stock. It is a number only on limited, when Best Buy itself shows "only N left" at that store.

Call /api/v1/bestbuy/availability on a schedule for the SKU and the stores you care about, and alert when a store's status changes to in_stock or limited. Use it to tell shoppers where to pick an item up; it does not place orders or check out.

Yes. /api/v1/bestbuy/deals returns today's Deal of the Day and the more-deals row under it, up to 15 products, each with a live price, regular price, savings, rating and review count, plus the countdown end. It takes no parameters and costs 3 credits.

Keep a list of SKUs and send up to 15 at a time to /api/v1/bestbuy/prices on a schedule: 2 credits per call whatever the count. Store price, regular_price and badge per SKU and alert when the price drops. The API returns the current price only; it has no price history, so the history is the one you record.

Yes. /api/v1/bestbuy/prices takes 1 to 15 SKUs, as an array or a comma-separated string, and returns price, regular price, savings, on-sale flag and deal badge for each (the deal end time comes from the product endpoint; deal_ends_at is usually null on prices). A SKU Best Buy does not know comes back found: false; the call is a 404, and not charged, only when none is known.

Yes. /api/v1/bestbuy/reviews returns Best Buy's customer reviews, 20 per page, sorted most relevant, most helpful, newest, oldest, highest or lowest rated, optionally only one star rating, with the star histogram, recommended percent and the pros and cons reviewers mention most. The Insignia TV had 4,031 reviews averaging 4.6, 93% recommended.

Yes. /api/v1/bestbuy/category takes a category id such as abcat0101001 or a category URL, with the same filters as search: clearance, on_sale, open_box, brand and a price range, and sorts including best_discount. It also reads merchandised deal pages such as All Electronics on Sale (pcmcat1674241939957) at 3 credits.

Not by default. Best Buy mixes sponsored tiles into the grid; the API leaves them out and counts them in sponsored_count, 6 on the first page of "tv". Pass include_sponsored: true to get them back, flagged sponsored: true.

Yes. Product returns upc and model for every SKU, and search and category return model on every result, so you can match a Best Buy SKU to the same item at other retailers.

Yes. /api/v1/bestbuy/stores returns up to 15 stores near a US ZIP code, nearest first, with store id, address, phone, open status, distance and the opening hours for each of the next 35 days, so holiday hours and closed days show on their date. It costs 1 credit.

Search, product, reviews and prices cost 2 credits, category 2 for an abcat category and 3 for a pcmcat page, deals 3, availability 2 for up to 8 stores, and stores and suggestions 1. An unknown SKU or category (404) or a temporary outage (502) is not charged. New accounts get 50 free credits on signup, one time, with no card required. Paid plans start at $15 per month for 3,000 credits.

Every request fetches live from bestbuy.com at the moment you call it, and nothing is cached. Each response carries fetched_at. In our captures, suggestions took 0.6 seconds, prices 2.0, stores 2.1, product 3.0, category 3.0, deals 4.9, search 5.3 and availability for 3 stores 6.4. Upstream checks sometimes fail; the API retries automatically, and a call that still fails is a 502 that is not charged.

bestbuy.com in the United States, with prices in US dollars and US stores. Best Buy Canada (bestbuy.ca) is a separate site and is not covered.

No. No response carries price history, price-match data or customer questions and answers. Record prices yourself with /api/v1/bestbuy/prices to build a history.

Scavio returns publicly available bestbuy.com data and does not sign in to customer accounts, read order history or place orders. You remain responsible for how you use the data, including compliance with Best Buy's terms. Talk to your own counsel for your specific use case.