Python Best Buy API Wrapper

A modern, high-performance, asynchronous and synchronous Python SDK for the Best Buy REST API.

Features

• Products API: Search by SKU, UPC, description, customer review criteria, or complex query expressions.
• Recommendations API: Access Trending products, Most Viewed, Also Bought, Also Viewed, and Viewed Ultimately Bought.
• Buying Options (Open Box) API: Access open-box availability, condition ratings, and special pricing by SKU, list of SKUs, or category.
• Stores API: Store lookup by store ID, ZIP/postal code, city, region/state, or geographic radius search (area(lat,lng,distance)).
• Categories API: Query categories by ID, name, or custom filters.
• Bulk Data API: Download and parse daily archives and subsets (JSON/XML).
• Dual Sync & Async Support: Unified API with high-performance HTTP connection pooling via httpx.
• CursorMark Pagination: Stream large result sets seamlessly with iter_cursor() / aiter_cursor() and iter_pages() / aiter_pages().
• Granular Error Handling: Specific exceptions for HTTP 401/403, 404, 429 rate limits, and server errors.
• Type Safety: Fully typed with PEP 561 py.typed support.

Installation

Using uv (recommended):

uv add bestbuyapi

Or with pip:

pip install bestbuyapi

Configuration

You can supply your API key directly or define BESTBUY_API_KEY in your environment or a .env file:

BESTBUY_API_KEY=your_api_key_here

Quickstart

Synchronous Usage

from bestbuyapi import BestBuyAPI

# Automatically reads BESTBUY_API_KEY from environment if not provided
with BestBuyAPI() as bb:
    # 1. Search Products
    product = bb.products.search_by_sku(5985609, format="json")
    print(product)

    # 2. Recommendations
    trending = bb.recommendations.trending(category_id="abcat0400000")
    also_bought = bb.recommendations.also_bought(8880044)

    # 3. Open Box / Buying Options
    open_box_deals = bb.open_box.search_by_sku(8610161)

    # 4. Stores by Radius (Latitude, Longitude, Distance in Miles)
    nearby_stores = bb.stores.search_by_area(lat=44.88476, lng=-93.30058, distance_miles=10)

    # 5. Categories
    cat = bb.categories.search_by_id("abcat0101001")

    # 6. Bulk Archives
    all_categories = bb.bulk.archive("categories", "json")

Asynchronous Usage

import asyncio
from bestbuyapi import AsyncBestBuyAPI

async def main():
    async with AsyncBestBuyAPI() as bb:
        # Concurrent API calls
        product_task = bb.products.asearch_by_sku(5985609, format="json")
        trending_task = bb.recommendations.atrending()
        stores_task = bb.stores.asearch_by_postal_code(55423)

        product, trending, stores = await asyncio.gather(
            product_task, trending_task, stores_task
        )
        print(f"Product: {product['products'][0]['name']}")
        print(f"Trending count: {len(trending['results'])}")
        print(f"Stores found: {len(stores['stores'])}")

asyncio.run(main())

Deep Pagination & Cursor Streaming

For large query results, use cursor marks to walk the result set efficiently without deep paging overhead:

Sync Cursor Streaming

with BestBuyAPI() as bb:
    # Streams batches of up to 100 products using cursorMark bookmarks
    for page in bb.products.iter_cursor(query="type=HardGood", page_size=100):
        for item in page.get("products", []):
            print(item["sku"], item.get("name"))

Async Page Streaming

async with AsyncBestBuyAPI() as bb:
    async for page in bb.stores.aiter_pages(query="region=MN", page_size=10, max_pages=3):
        for store in page.get("stores", []):
            print(store["storeId"], store["name"])

Error Handling

The library provides granular exception classes:

from bestbuyapi import BestBuyAPI
from bestbuyapi.utils.exceptions import (
    BestBuyAuthenticationError,
    BestBuyNotFoundError,
    BestBuyRateLimitError,
    BestBuyHTTPError,
    BestBuyValidationError,
)

try:
    with BestBuyAPI() as bb:
        bb.products.search_by_sku(12345)
except BestBuyAuthenticationError:
    print("Invalid or missing API key!")
except BestBuyRateLimitError:
    print("API rate limit exceeded. Please back off and retry.")
except BestBuyNotFoundError:
    print("Product not found.")
except BestBuyHTTPError as e:
    print(f"Best Buy HTTP Error ({e.status_code}): {e.message}")
except BestBuyValidationError as e:
    print(f"Invalid parameters: {e}")

Development

Running Tests

uv run pytest -v --cov=bestbuyapi --cov-report=term-missing

Pre-commit & Linting

uv run pre-commit run --all-files
uv run ruff check .
uv run ruff format --check .

FAQ

• Is there any difference between api.bestbuy.com and api.remix.bestbuy.com? No, both serve the same data. api.bestbuy.com is the official consolidated endpoint used by this library.

• Are bb.category and bb.categories both supported? Yes! bb.categories is an ergonomic alias for bb.category, and bb.buying_options is an alias for bb.open_box.

Questions or feedback? Feel free to open an issue or reach out at luis@lv10.me.