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Follow redirects
For performance reasons, we sometimes pre-render your results. If we do so, we will respond with a redirect. Please make sure, your client follows redirects when you request results.

Result formats

We currently can give you the job results in four different formats:

JSON (recommended for integration)
XML
CSV (for most topics)
XSLX (for most topics)

{
  "job_id": "1234567890abcdef12345678",
  "status": "finished",
  "free_credits": 2,
  "paid_credits": 0,
  "results": [
    {
      "query": {
        "source": "test",
        "country": "us",
        "topic": "search_results",
        "key": "gtin",
        "value": "00885909666966",
        "max_pages": 1,
        "max_age": 1200
      },
      "success": true,
      "metadata": {
        "from_cache": false,
        "page_count_delivered": 2,
        "page_count_from_cache": 0,
        "page_count_live": 2,
        "request_count": 3,
        "updated_at": "2017-06-08T12:34:37Z",
        "tag": "2017_06_01-10_03_51"
      },
      "content": {
        "search_results": [
          {
            "id": "product_0",
            "updated_at": "2017-06-08 12:34:37 UTC",
            "url": "https://test.priceapi.com/products/product_0",
            "name": "00885909666966 Result 0"
          },
          {
            "id": "product_1",
            "updated_at": "2017-06-08 12:34:37 UTC",
            "url": "https://test.priceapi.com/products/product_1",
            "name": "00885909666966 Result 1"
          },
	        // ... more search results
        ]
      }
    },
    // ... next search
  ]
}

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<hash>
  <job-id>1234567890abcdef12345678</job-id>
  <status type="symbol">finished</status>
  <free-credits type="integer">2</free-credits>
  <paid-credits type="integer">0</paid-credits>
  <results type="array">
    <result>
      <query>
        <source>test</source>
        <country>us</country>
        <topic>search_results</topic>
        <key>gtin</key>
        <value>00885909666966</value>
        <max-pages type="integer">1</max-pages>
        <max-age type="integer">1200</max-age>
      </query>
      <success type="boolean">true</success>
      <metadata>
        <from-cache type="boolean">false</from-cache>
        <page-count-delivered type="integer">2</page-count-delivered>
        <page-count-from-cache type="integer">0</page-count-from-cache>
        <page-count-live type="integer">2</page-count-live>
        <request-count type="integer">3</request-count>
        <updated-at type="dateTime">2017-06-08T12:34:37Z</updated-at>
      </metadata>
      <content>
        <search-results type="array">
          <search-result>
            <id>product_0</id>
            <updated-at type="dateTime">2017-06-08T12:34:37Z</updated-at>
            <url>https://test.priceapi.com/products/product_0</url>
            <name>00885909666966 Result 0</name>
          </search-result>
          <search-result>
            <id>product_1</id>
            <updated-at type="dateTime">2017-06-08T12:34:37Z</updated-at>
            <url>https://test.priceapi.com/products/product_1</url>
            <name>00885909666966 Result 1</name>
          </search-result>
	        <!-- ... more search results -->
        </search-results>
      </content>
    </result>
    <!-- ... next search -->
  </results>
</hash>

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72 hour retention period
Job results are only available for 72 hours after the job was requested. After that we permanently delete the results. So please make sure to download the results shortly after the job finishes.

List of error codes

Error code	Meaning
`unauthorized`	No `token` given or `token` is not valid.
`job not found`	No job could found for given `job_id`.
`job forbidden`	User with given `token` is not allowed access to the given job.
`job not finished`	Job processing is still in progress. Wait until its `status` it is `finished`.

Further error codes may be added.

Product-level errors

Even when a job is accepted, there may be errors while collecting data on individual products. This is indicated with the success attribute being false and with a given reason attribute.

When an error occurs, we don't deduct any credits.

The only exception is for reasonnot found (see below) as this is a valid response and it takes us the same amount of effort to find this out.

List of reasons

Reason codes	Meaning
`not found`	We have successfully searched for the given product, but it is not currently present on the `source`.
`invalid value`	We have checked the `value` and found that it is invalid. We did not try to request this. For example, if you search with `key=gtin` we will check the provided GTIN's checksum.
`timeout`	We could not collect the data in the timespan allowed by you. See job parameter `timeout`.
`error`	General error in our processing.

Additional reasons specific to the product matching topic can be found in this article.