bestbuyapi 2.1.3

Python Wrapper over Best Buy's REST API

Python Best Buy API Wrapper

This is a small python wrapper implementation for BestBuy API.

Features

• Query Bulk BestBuy API
• Query Stores BestBuy API
• Query Products BestBuy API
• Query Categories BestBuy API
• Obtain queries result in JSON or XML
• Environment variable support via python-dotenv
• Modern development workflow with uv and pre-commit

Install

We recommend using uv for package management:

uv add bestbuyapi

Or with pip:

pip install bestbuyapi

Configuration

You can use a .env file to store your API key:

BESTBUY_API_KEY=your_api_key_here

Usage

from bestbuyapi import BestBuyAPI

# If not provided, it will look for BESTBUY_API_KEY in environment variables
bb = BestBuyAPI()

a_prod = bb.products.search(query="sku=9776457", format="json")
a_cat = bb.category.search_by_id(category_id="abcat0011001", format="json")
all_categories = bb.bulk.archive("categories", "json")

Development

Running Tests

Tests are executed via pytest. We use pytest-cov for coverage reporting.

uv run pytest --cov=bestbuyapi

CI/CD and Coverage

Our CI pipeline in GitHub Actions runs tests across multiple Python versions. Coverage reports are generated during the test phase and can be shared or uploaded to services like Codecov.

Pre-commit Hooks

We use pre-commit to ensure code quality. It runs ruff for linting and formatting.

uv run pre-commit run --all-files

FAQ

• Is there any difference between /api.bestbuy.com/ and api.remix.bestbuy.com? A: There is no difference, they serve the same data - we just consolidated domains. The official url to use is api.bestbuy.com.

Any questions please feel free to email me at: [e-mail]