Product Search API overview
What is Amazon Business’ Product Search API?
Amazon Business’ Product Search API, also known as Integrated Search, allows users to search for Amazon Business products within an e-procurement system or native website. The API can provide access to the full selection of Amazon Business products in real time with comprehensive filtering, sorting, and tagging, empowering your customers to tailor each search to their needs. Product Search API supports guided buying policies and product labels that enable you to signify whether products align with your organization’s spending, environmental, and diversity policies, helping drive increased purchasing compliance. By integrating Product Search API in your system, you can help enable seamless product discovery, personalized search experiences, and compliant spending.
Benefits of Product Search API
Product Search API provides the following benefits for you and your business customers:
Simplified purchasing
With Product Search API, you can reduce clicks and save time by searching and shopping from an e-procurement system or integrated buying solution.
Ease of search
Product Search API offers robust personalization features, such as dynamic search result filtering, delivery day preferences, and offer selections. By passing these flags in the request, you can search for products that support one-day shipping, fit into certain product categories, or are sold by your preferred merchants. These capabilities make it easy to offer Amazon-like search experiences in your application, so your users can find exactly what they’re looking for.
Easy comparison with real-time updates
By integrating Product Search API in your purchasing system, you can allow your end users to find and compare the Amazon Business catalog with other catalogs in your system. With real-time product updates across millions of products in the Amazon Business store, Product Search API equips your users to easily and consistently make informed purchasing decisions.
Purchasing policy compliance
Product Search API supports buying policies such as preferring local sellers, identifying environmentally sustainable products, identifying diverse merchants, or restricting certain items. These policies allow you to seamlessly tailor your product results to align with your organization’s compliance guidelines.
How Product Search API works
You can initiate a product search by passing a request to Product Search API. Each API request returns product details matching the requested search criteria, such as a keyword, an Amazon Standard Identification Number (ASIN), or an external identifier, such as an ISBN or UPC code.
Operations
Product Search API provides four operations:
| Operation | Method | Path | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
searchProductsRequest | GET | /products/2020-08-26/products | Use this operation to search for products by keyword, product identifier, or other search criteria. |
productsRequest | GET | /products/2020-08-26/products/{productId} | Use this operation to retrieve details about a specific product given its ASIN identifier. |
searchOffersRequest | GET | /products/2020-08-26/products/{productId}/offers | Use this operation to search for alternative offers of a specific product. |
getProductsByAsins | POST | /products/2020-08-26/products/getProductsByAsins | Use this operation to search for up to 30 ASINs in bulk. |
Onboarding to Product Search API
Complete these steps to access Product Search API:
- Complete the API onboarding process to register as a developer, create an app client, and retrieve API access and refresh tokens. For more information, see Onboarding overview.
- Gain access to the Business Product Catalog role. For more information, see Amazon Business API roles.
Once you’ve completed these steps, follow these guides to start integrating Product Search API:
Updated 2 months ago