Product Data API

API change history

The Product Data API provides a wide range of data points you can use in your applications, in addition to having a range of endpoints that give you complete control over how you access the data. The end points include everything from accessing specific information like the Amazon ASIN to the full payload of all data points including titles, images, descriptions, attributes, weight, measurements and a lot more.

Code samples

@ECHO OFF

curl -v -X GET "https://api.apigenius.io/products/identifiers?upc={int}&mpn={string}&title={string}&api_key={string}"
-H "ApiGenius_API_Key: {subscription key}"

--data-ascii "{body}"

using System;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;

namespace CSHttpClientSample
{
    static class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            MakeRequest();
            Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
        
        static async void MakeRequest()
        {
            var client = new HttpClient();
            var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);

            // Request headers
            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("ApiGenius_API_Key", "{subscription key}");

            // Request parameters
            queryString["upc"] = "{int}";
            queryString["mpn"] = "{string}";
            queryString["title"] = "{string}";
            queryString["api_key"] = "{string}";
            var uri = "https://api.apigenius.io/products/identifiers?" + queryString;

            var response = await client.GetAsync(uri);
        }
    }
}

// // This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
import java.net.URI;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

public class JavaSample 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();

        try
        {
            URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://api.apigenius.io/products/identifiers");

            builder.setParameter("upc", "{int}");
            builder.setParameter("mpn", "{string}");
            builder.setParameter("title", "{string}");
            builder.setParameter("api_key", "{string}");

            URI uri = builder.build();
            HttpGet request = new HttpGet(uri);
            request.setHeader("ApiGenius_API_Key", "{subscription key}");


            // Request body
            StringEntity reqEntity = new StringEntity("{body}");
            request.setEntity(reqEntity);

            HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
            HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

            if (entity != null) 
            {
                System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
            }
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        }
    }
}

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>JSSample</title>
    <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function() {
        var params = {
            // Request parameters
            "upc": "{int}",
            "mpn": "{string}",
            "title": "{string}",
            "api_key": "{string}",
        };
      
        $.ajax({
            url: "https://api.apigenius.io/products/identifiers?" + $.param(params),
            beforeSend: function(xhrObj){
                // Request headers
                xhrObj.setRequestHeader("ApiGenius_API_Key","{subscription key}");
            },
            type: "GET",
            // Request body
            data: "{body}",
        })
        .done(function(data) {
            alert("success");
        })
        .fail(function() {
            alert("error");
        });
    });
</script>
</body>
</html>

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
    NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
    
    NSString* path = @"https://api.apigenius.io/products/identifiers";
    NSArray* array = @[
                         // Request parameters
                         @"entities=true",
                         @"upc={int}",
                         @"mpn={string}",
                         @"title={string}",
                         @"api_key={string}",
                      ];
    
    NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
    path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];

    NSLog(@"%@", path);

    NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
    [_request setHTTPMethod:@"GET"];
    // Request headers
    [_request setValue:@"{subscription key}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"ApiGenius_API_Key"];
    // Request body
    [_request setHTTPBody:[@"{body}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
    
    NSURLResponse *response = nil;
    NSError *error = nil;
    NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];

    if (nil != error)
    {
        NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
    }
    else
    {
        NSError* error = nil;
        NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;
        NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
        NSLog(@"%@", dataString);
        
        if (nil != _connectionData)
        {
            json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
        }
        
        if (error || !json)
        {
            NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);
        }
        
        NSLog(@"%@", json);
        _connectionData = nil;
    }
    
    [pool drain];

    return 0;
}

<?php
// This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';

$request = new Http_Request2('https://api.apigenius.io/products/identifiers');
$url = $request->getUrl();

$headers = array(
    // Request headers
    'ApiGenius_API_Key' => '{subscription key}',
);

$request->setHeader($headers);

$parameters = array(
    // Request parameters
    'upc' => '{int}',
    'mpn' => '{string}',
    'title' => '{string}',
    'api_key' => '{string}',
);

$url->setQueryVariables($parameters);

$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_GET);

// Request body
$request->setBody("{body}");

try
{
    $response = $request->send();
    echo $response->getBody();
}
catch (HttpException $ex)
{
    echo $ex;
}

?>

########### Python 2.7 #############
import httplib, urllib, base64

headers = {
    # Request headers
    'ApiGenius_API_Key': '{subscription key}',
}

params = urllib.urlencode({
    # Request parameters
    'upc': '{int}',
    'mpn': '{string}',
    'title': '{string}',
    'api_key': '{string}',
})

try:
    conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.apigenius.io')
    conn.request("GET", "/products/identifiers?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    data = response.read()
    print(data)
    conn.close()
except Exception as e:
    print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################

########### Python 3.2 #############
import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64

headers = {
    # Request headers
    'ApiGenius_API_Key': '{subscription key}',
}

params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
    # Request parameters
    'upc': '{int}',
    'mpn': '{string}',
    'title': '{string}',
    'api_key': '{string}',
})

try:
    conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('api.apigenius.io')
    conn.request("GET", "/products/identifiers?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    data = response.read()
    print(data)
    conn.close()
except Exception as e:
    print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################

require 'net/http'

uri = URI('https://api.apigenius.io/products/identifiers')

query = URI.encode_www_form({
    # Request parameters
    'upc' => '{int}',
    'mpn' => '{string}',
    'title' => '{string}',
    'api_key' => '{string}'
})
if query.length > 0
  if uri.query && uri.query.length > 0
    uri.query += '&' + query
  else
    uri.query = query
  end
end

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
# Request headers
request['ApiGenius_API_Key'] = '{subscription key}'
# Request body
request.body = "{body}"

response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
    http.request(request)
end

puts response.body

identifiers

This endpoint will give you all the available identifiers for a Specific Product. You will need to supply 1 identifier listed below to execute the look up. It is good for applications the need a light, fast API with the data points shown in the example response.

Try it

Request

Request URL

https://api.apigenius.io/products/identifiers[?upc][&mpn][&title][&api_key]

Request parameters

upc (optional)

int

The product's UPC code. What is a UPC?
mpn (optional)

string

The product's MPN (manufacture part number) code. What is a MPN?
title (optional)

string

The title of the product.
api_key (optional)

string

If you would like to supply your API in the request URL you can, but we recommend including it in the header of the request with the variable listed below.

Request headers

ApiGenius_API_Key

string

Subscription key which provides access to this API. Found in your Profile.

Request body

Responses

200 OK

Successful Request

Representations

application/json

{
    "success": true,
    "status": 200,
    "identifier": "iphone+6",
    "identifier_type": "title",
    "items": {
        "title": "iPhone 6 Plus Case,iPhone 6s Plus Case, ULAK Slim Dual Layer Protection Scratch Resistant Hard Back Cover Shockproof TPU Bumper Case for Apple iPhone 6/6S Plus 5.5 inch-Minimal Rose Gold Grey",
        "upc": "190514050377",
        "ean": "0190514050377",
        "part_number": "For iPhone 6 Plus 5.5 inch/ iPh",
        "brand": "ULAK",
        "elid": "183647017335",
        "asin": "B00ZRDKTL0"
    }
}