Best Buy API

Name: Best Buy API
Brand: Best Buy API
Availability: InStock

★ Only Publicly Available OpenAPI DocumentE CommerceStorefrontapiKey15 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Search the Best Buy product catalog, look up store locations, retrieve recommendations, and check open-box availability. Read-only across 15 endpoints.

Install Jentic One Beta

Connect the Best Buy API to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the Best Buy API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.

Step 1: Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh

Step 2: Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Best Buy API.

Search the Best Buy product catalog by SKU, keyword, or category

Look up Best Buy store locations and the inventory available at a store

Retrieve product recommendations such as also-viewed and trending products

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Use Cases

Patterns agents use Best Buy API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Retail Price Comparison

Pull product price, availability, and SKU detail from Best Buy into a price comparison engine or shopping assistant. The /v1/products endpoint supports keyword and SKU lookups and returns regular and sale prices for tens of thousands of items. A baseline integration that ingests pricing for a watchlist of SKUs takes about a day, including caching for the API key quota.

GET /v1/products with a keyword filter, then for each result GET /v1/products/{sku}.json and emit the regularPrice and salePrice fields

Store Inventory Locator

Help shoppers find a nearby Best Buy that has a SKU in stock by combining /v1/products/{sku}/stores.json with /v1/stores filtered by zip code. The store endpoint returns address, phone, and operating hours for retail decision support. Wiring up a store-finder feature is typically half a day of work.

Given a SKU and zip code, GET /v1/products/{sku}/stores.json and return the three closest stores reporting availability

Open-Box Deal Monitoring

Track open-box pricing on watched SKUs to surface deals to a buyer or affiliate audience. /beta/products/openBox returns the catalog of open-box offers and /beta/products/{sku}/openBox returns offers for a single product with condition grades and discount percentages. A daily polling job with delta detection takes about half a day to build.

GET /beta/products/openBox once per hour and notify the user when a watched SKU appears with at least 20 percent discount

AI Agent for Shopping Research

An AI agent uses Jentic to discover Best Buy operations and answer shopper questions: comparing prices, finding nearby in-stock options, or surfacing trending models. The agent searches Jentic by intent, loads the operation schema, and executes against the 15 read-only endpoints without browsing the developer reference. Through Jentic, integration takes under an hour.

Search Jentic for 'find best buy product price' and execute the returned operation to retrieve current price and stock for the user's SKU

Key Endpoints

15 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for best buy api, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/v1/products

Search the product catalog with filters

GET

/v1/products/{sku}.json

Get detail for a specific SKU

GET

/v1/products/{sku}/stores.json

List stores carrying a SKU

GET

/v1/stores

List Best Buy store locations

GET

/v1/products/trendingViewed

Get currently trending products

GET

/v1/products/{sku}/alsoViewed

Recommendations for a SKU

GET

/beta/products/openBox

Browse open-box inventory across the catalog

GET

/beta/products/{sku}/openBox

Open-box offers for a specific SKU

GET

/v1/products

Search the product catalog with filters

GET

/v1/products/{sku}.json

Get detail for a specific SKU

GET

/v1/products/{sku}/stores.json

List stores carrying a SKU

GET

/v1/stores

List Best Buy store locations

GET

/v1/products/trendingViewed

Get currently trending products

Why Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Your Best Buy API key is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and appended as the apiKey query parameter at execution time. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'find a product price at Best Buy' or 'find open box deals', and Jentic returns the matching Best Buy operation with its parameter schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the developer portal.

Time to first call

FAQs

Specific to using Best Buy API through Jentic.

Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for Best Buy API?

Best Buy does not publish an OpenAPI specification. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call Best Buy API via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started with Jentic One, the self-hosted execution layer.

What authentication does the Best Buy API use?

The Best Buy API uses an API key passed as the apiKey query string parameter on every request. Keys are issued through the Best Buy developer portal. When called via Jentic, the key is stored encrypted in your Jentic One instance and appended to outgoing requests at execution time so it never appears in the agent context.

Can I check open-box availability for a specific SKU?

Yes. GET /beta/products/{sku}/openBox returns open-box offers for a SKU including condition grade and discount, while GET /beta/products/openBox returns the catalog-wide open-box feed. These endpoints are flagged beta in the spec, so expect occasional schema changes.

How do I look up a product price through Jentic?

Run pip install jentic and search for 'best buy product price'. Jentic returns GET /v1/products/{sku}.json, the agent loads the schema, and executes with the SKU. Combine with /v1/products/{sku}/stores.json to also surface in-store availability.

What rate limits apply to the Best Buy API?

Best Buy enforces per-key call quotas that vary by partner tier and endpoint, with daily and per-second caps documented on the developer portal. The OpenAPI spec does not encode these explicitly, so cache catalog responses and back off on 429 to stay within the quota.

Is the Best Buy API free?

The Best Buy Developer API is free for approved partners but requires an API key obtained through the Best Buy developer programme. There is no charge per request within the issued quota; commercial use cases must be approved by Best Buy before launch.

Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the Best Buy API?

Yes. Because you run Jentic One yourself, your own rules decide exactly which Best Buy operations the agent may call, so you can scope it to just the read-only endpoints it needs, such as looking up a product by SKU with GET /v1/products/{sku}.json or checking open-box deals with GET /beta/products/{sku}/openBox. The Best Buy API is read-only and carries its SKU in the URL path, so there are no write operations to worry about, and the agent can only invoke the operation set you approve. Your API key is held by your own instance and appended at execution time, so the agent never sees it.