walmartAPI (version 0.1.5)

searching: searching with text the Walmart catalogue

Description

searching allows text search on the Walmart.com catalogue and returns matching items available for sale online. An API key will be required to run this function and can be acquired by creating an account on the following website https://developer.walmartlabs.com/member.

Usage

searching(query, key = auth_cache$KEY, lsPublisherId = NULL,
  categoryId = NULL, start = NULL, sort = NULL, order = NULL,
  numItems = NULL, facet = FALSE, facet.filter = NULL,
  list_output = FALSE)

Arguments

query

Search text - whitespace separated sequence of keywords to search for.

key

Your API access key.

lsPublisherId

Your LinkShare Publisher Id.

categoryId

Category id of the category for search within a category. This should match the id field from Taxonomy API.

start

Starting point of the results within the matching set of items - up to 10 items will be returned starting from this item.

sort

Sorting criteria, allowed sort types are (relevance, price, title, bestseller, customerRating, new). Default sort is by relevance.

order

Sort ordering criteria, allowed values are (asc, desc). This parameter is needed only for the sort types (price, title, customerRating).

numItems

Number of matching items to be returned, max value 25. Default is 10.

facet

Logical. Enables facets. Default value is FALSE. Set this to on to enable facets.

facet.filter

Filter on the facet attribute values. This parameter can be set to <facet-name>:<facet-value> (without the angles). Here facet-name and facet-value can be any valid facet picked from the search API response when facets are on.

list_output

Indicator for list output.

Value

A tibble with 15 columns in base response format.

Details

For more information refer to the original documentation https://developer.walmartlabs.com/docs/read/Search_API.

Response formats are described at the url https://developer.walmartlabs.com/docs/read/Item_Field_Description.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
key <- "************************"

searching(query = "ipod", key = key)

searching(query = "ipod", key = key, categoryId = 3944)

searching(query = "ipod", key = key, start = 44)

searching(query = "ipod", key = key, numItems = 44)

searching(query = "ipod", key = key, sort = "price", order = "asc")

searching(query = "ipod", key = key, sort = "bestseller")

searching(query = "ipod", key = key, list_output = TRUE)
# }