Our Idealo data API is a RESTful service based on JSON format (or others) that provides you with market price and product data on your portfolio items. In order to receive data on one or more offers for products your system asks the API with a specific identifier (GTIN, id, term, URL) and country code (de, us, etc.). Our service visits the website of the data source specified in the request, searches for the product offers and extracts the relevant information. Once this process is done, your system can download the data and use it for further processing.
The following steps apply when data is requested from Idealo data API:
1.|Create a job
2.|Poll the job (every few minutes) untill results are prepared
There are several endpoints to create a job, based on the search parameter.
A job summarizes your request to collect data for one or more product offers. Each job carries a job_id and can be specified by the following parameters:
Available idealo countries:
All start search endpoints returns the job structure including the job_id. This is used in the polling step.
If there is an error in the input parameters e.g. incorrect source, or country an error message is returned.
{
"error": false,
"job_id": "5fa2660127a87648da89d17f"
}
{
"error": true,
"message": "missing parameter"
}
ORList of possible errors:
No matter what start search endpoint was used there is only one endpoint “Poll results”.
A job_id received from start search is used as an input to this endpoint.
Response is a JSON object.
If the job is not finished yet, the “status” field of response is “working”. So poll the endpoint again after a few minutes.
If the job is finished, “status” field is “finished” and “results” field is an arrays of results for each value submitted. The “content” of each results includes the data about the product (title, description, rating, price summary, etc.) and offers of various sellers if available. The content varies somewhat based on the input source.
{
"error": false,
"job"_id": "620e50be1e672e32b4b36e1a",
"status": "working",
"done": 0,
"all": 2
}
{
"job_id": "620e50be1e672e32b4b36e1a",
"status": "finished",
"results": [
{
"updated_at": "2022-02-17T13:44:28.528Z",
"query": {
"max_age": 1200,
"max_pages": 1,
"value": "0194252014233",
"key": "gtin",
"country": "de",
"topic": "search",
"source": "idealo"
},
"content": {
"offers": [
{
"direct_sale": false,
"availability_text": "Lieferung innerhalb von 2 - 4 Werktagen nach Zahlungseingang.",
"availability_code": "orange",
"voucher": true,
"free_return": "0",
"total": 550.96,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 550.96,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "1",
"shop_review_count": 7317,
"shop_review_rating": 100,
"marketplace_name": "eBay",
"shop_type": "marketplace-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.ebay.de/usr/sr_versandhaus",
"shop_name": "sr_versandhaus"
},
{
"direct_sale": true,
"availability_text": "Pünktliche Lieferung:\n \n \n 1-3 Werktage",
"availability_code": "green",
"voucher": false,
"free_return": "0",
"total": 598,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 598,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "2",
"shop_review_count": 552,
"shop_review_rating": 80,
"marketplace_name": "N/A",
"shop_type": "standalone-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.carbonphone",
"shop_name": "CarbonPhone"
},
{
"direct_sale": true,
"availability_text": "Lieferung in 1-5 Tagen (Hinweis für Geschäftskunden: Differenzbesteuerung nach § 25a UStG)",
"availability_code": "orange",
"voucher": false,
"free_return": "30",
"total": 599,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 599,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "3",
"shop_review_count": 1,
"shop_review_rating": 100,
"marketplace_name": "N/A",
"shop_type": "standalone-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.sparsmart24.de",
"shop_name": "sparsmart24.de"
},
{
"direct_sale": false,
"availability_text": "Lieferung in 1-5 Tagen (Hinweis für Geschäftskunden: Differenzbesteuerung nach § 25a UStG)",
"availability_code": "orange",
"voucher": false,
"free_return": "30",
"total": 599,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 599,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "4",
"shop_review_count": 1,
"shop_review_rating": 100,
"marketplace_name": "N/A",
"shop_type": "standalone-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.sparsmart24.de",
"shop_name": "sparsmart24.de"
},
{
"direct_sale": true,
"availability_text": "1-3 Werktage",
"availability_code": "green",
"voucher": false,
"free_return": "30",
"total": 599,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 599,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "5",
"shop_review_count": 210,
"shop_review_rating": 80,
"marketplace_name": "N/A",
"shop_type": "standalone-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.cleverbuy.de",
"shop_name": "cleverbuy.de"
},
{
"direct_sale": false,
"availability_text": "1-3 Werktage",
"availability_code": "green",
"voucher": true,
"free_return": "30",
"total": 599,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 599,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "6",
"shop_review_count": 210,
"shop_review_rating": 80,
"marketplace_name": "N/A",
"shop_type": "standalone-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.cleverbuy.de",
"shop_name": "cleverbuy.de"
},
{
"direct_sale": false,
"availability_text": "1-3 Werktage",
"availability_code": "green",
"voucher": false,
"free_return": "14",
"total": 616,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 616,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "7",
"shop_review_count": 41487,
"shop_review_rating": 80,
"marketplace_name": "N/A",
"shop_type": "standalone-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.kaufland.de",
"shop_name": "kaufland.de"
},
{
"direct_sale": true,
"availability_text": "Pünktliche Lieferung:\n \n \n \n Sa. 19.02.–Mo. 21.02.",
"availability_code": "green",
"voucher": false,
"free_return": "0",
"total": 617.02,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 617.02,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "8",
"shop_review_count": 260,
"shop_review_rating": 40,
"marketplace_name": "N/A",
"shop_type": "standalone-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.buyzoxs.de",
"shop_name": "buyzoxs.de"
},
{
"direct_sale": false,
"availability_text": "Lieferung:\n \n \n Sa. 19.02.–Mo. 21.02.",
"availability_code": "green",
"voucher": false,
"free_return": "0",
"total": 617.02,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 617.02,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "9",
"shop_review_count": 260,
"shop_review_rating": 40,
"marketplace_name": "N/A",
"shop_type": "standalone-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.buyzoxs.de",
"shop_name": "buyzoxs.de"
},
{
"direct_sale": true,
"availability_text": "Lieferung:\n \n \n Di. 22.02.–Mi. 23.02.",
"availability_code": "green",
"voucher": false,
"free_return": "0",
"total": 619,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 619,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "10",
"shop_review_count": 385,
"shop_review_rating": 60,
"marketplace_name": "N/A",
"shop_type": "standalone-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.autoundsound",
"shop_name": "autoundsound"
},
{
"direct_sale": false,
"availability_text": "3 Tage",
"availability_code": "green",
"voucher": false,
"free_return": "90",
"total": 619,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 619,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "11",
"shop_review_count": 5691,
"shop_review_rating": 90,
"marketplace_name": "N/A",
"shop_type": "standalone-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.lidl.de",
"shop_name": "lidl.de"
},
{
"direct_sale": false,
"availability_text": "1 Werktage",
"availability_code": "green",
"voucher": false,
"free_return": "31",
"total": 622,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 622,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "12",
"shop_review_count": 307,
"shop_review_rating": 90,
"marketplace_name": "N/A",
"shop_type": "standalone-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.gomibo.de",
"shop_name": "gomibo.de"
},
{
"direct_sale": false,
"availability_text": "Auf Lager, Lieferung innerhalb von 2 Tagen. Berlin jetzt noch schneller.",
"availability_code": "green",
"voucher": false,
"free_return": "30",
"total": 623.9,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 623.9,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "13",
"shop_review_count": 1390,
"shop_review_rating": 70,
"marketplace_name": "N/A",
"shop_type": "standalone-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.alza.de",
"shop_name": "alza.de"
},
{
"direct_sale": false,
"availability_text": "Auf Lager.. Express-Versand mit Amazon Prime möglich.",
"availability_code": "green",
"voucher": false,
"free_return": "30",
"total": 625.94,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 625.94,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "14",
"shop_review_count": 1405,
"shop_review_rating": 40,
"marketplace_name": "N/A",
"shop_type": "standalone-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.amazon.de",
"shop_name": "Amazon"
},
{
"direct_sale": false,
"availability_text": "lieferbar in ca. 6-8 Wochen",
"availability_code": "orange",
"voucher": false,
"free_return": "14",
"total": 629,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 629,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "15",
"shop_review_count": 13,
"shop_review_rating": 60,
"marketplace_name": "N/A",
"shop_type": "standalone-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.comspot.de",
"shop_name": "comspot.de"
},
{
"direct_sale": false,
"availability_text": "voraussichtlich verfügbar ab 17.03.2022",
"availability_code": "grey",
"voucher": false,
"free_return": "30",
"total": 629,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 629,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "16",
"shop_review_count": 24376,
"shop_review_rating": 40,
"marketplace_name": "N/A",
"shop_type": "standalone-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.cyberport.de",
"shop_name": "cyberport.de"
},
{
"direct_sale": true,
"availability_text": "sofort lieferbar, Lieferung in 1-3 Werktagen",
"availability_code": "green",
"voucher": false,
"free_return": "14",
"total": 629.99,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 629.99,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "17",
"shop_review_count": 12432,
"shop_review_rating": 40,
"marketplace_name": "N/A",
"shop_type": "standalone-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.saturn.de",
"shop_name": "saturn.de"
},
{
"direct_sale": false,
"availability_text": "sofort lieferbar, Lieferung in 1-3 Werktagen",
"availability_code": "green",
"voucher": false,
"free_return": "14",
"total": 629.99,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 629.99,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "18",
"shop_review_count": 12432,
"shop_review_rating": 40,
"marketplace_name": "N/A",
"shop_type": "standalone-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.saturn.de",
"shop_name": "saturn.de"
},
{
"direct_sale": true,
"availability_text": "sofort lieferbar, Lieferung 1-3 Werktagen",
"availability_code": "green",
"voucher": false,
"free_return": "14",
"total": 629.99,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 629.99,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "19",
"shop_review_count": 12153,
"shop_review_rating": 30,
"marketplace_name": "N/A",
"shop_type": "standalone-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.mediamarkt.de",
"shop_name": "mediamarkt.de"
},
{
"direct_sale": false,
"availability_text": "sofort lieferbar, Lieferung 1-3 Werktagen",
"availability_code": "green",
"voucher": false,
"free_return": "14",
"total": 629.99,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 629.99,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "20",
"shop_review_count": 12153,
"shop_review_rating": 30,
"marketplace_name": "N/A",
"shop_type": "standalone-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.mediamarkt.de",
"shop_name": "mediamarkt.de"
}
],
"offers_count": 20,
"price_min": 550.96,
"price_max": 629.99,
"price_avg": 614.14,
"last_updated": "2022-02-17T01:33",
"available_since": "20201013",
"category_ids": [19116],
"categories": [
"Elektroartikel",
"Telekommunikation",
"Handys & Smartphones",
"Apple iPhone 12 mini",
"64GB Blau"
],
"review_count": 0,
"review_rating": 0,
"url": "https://www.idealo.de/preisvergleich/OffersOfProduct/200743988",
"name": "Apple iPhone 12 mini 64GB Blau",
"id": "200743988"
},
"success": true
},
{
"updated_at": "2022-02-17T13:44:33.596Z",
"query": {
"max_age": 1200,
"max_pages": 1,
"value": "0194252099537",
"key": "gtin",
"country": "de",
"topic": "search",
"source": "idealo"
},
"content": {
"offers": [
{
"direct_sale": false,
"availability_text": "Lieferung innerhalb von 2 - 4 Werktagen nach Zahlungseingang.",
"availability_code": "orange",
"voucher": true,
"free_return": "0",
"total": 617.49,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 617.49,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "1",
"shop_review_count": 95260,
"shop_review_rating": 100,
"marketplace_name": "eBay",
"shop_type": "marketplace-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.ebay.de/usr/mobile-online-shop",
"shop_name": "mobile-online-shop"
},
{
"direct_sale": false,
"availability_text": "Auf Lager, 1-2 Werktage",
"availability_code": "green",
"voucher": false,
"free_return": "100",
"total": 619.99,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 619.99,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "2",
"shop_review_count": 538,
"shop_review_rating": 80,
"marketplace_name": "N/A",
"shop_type": "standalone-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.galaxus.de",
"shop_name": "galaxus.de"
},
{
"direct_sale": false,
"availability_text": "sofort lieferbar, Lieferung 1-3 Werktagen",
"availability_code": "green",
"voucher": false,
"free_return": "14",
"total": 619.99,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 619.99,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "3",
"shop_review_count": 12153,
"shop_review_rating": 30,
"marketplace_name": "N/A",
"shop_type": "standalone-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.mediamarkt.de",
"shop_name": "mediamarkt.de"
},
{
"direct_sale": false,
"availability_text": "Auf Lager.. Express-Versand mit Amazon Prime möglich.",
"availability_code": "green",
"voucher": false,
"free_return": "30",
"total": 619.99,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 619.99,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "4",
"shop_review_count": 1405,
"shop_review_rating": 40,
"marketplace_name": "N/A",
"shop_type": "standalone-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.amazon.de",
"shop_name": "Amazon"
},
{
"direct_sale": false,
"availability_text": "1 Werktage",
"availability_code": "green",
"voucher": false,
"free_return": "31",
"total": 628,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 628,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "5",
"shop_review_count": 307,
"shop_review_rating": 90,
"marketplace_name": "N/A",
"shop_type": "standalone-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.gomibo.de",
"shop_name": "gomibo.de"
},
{
"direct_sale": false,
"availability_text": "lieferbar in ca. 6-8 Wochen",
"availability_code": "orange",
"voucher": false,
"free_return": "14",
"total": 629,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 629,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "6",
"shop_review_count": 48,
"shop_review_rating": 90,
"marketplace_name": "N/A",
"shop_type": "standalone-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.shifter.shop",
"shop_name": "shifter.shop"
},
{
"direct_sale": false,
"availability_text": "lieferbar in ca. 6-8 Wochen",
"availability_code": "orange",
"voucher": false,
"free_return": "14",
"total": 629,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 629,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "7",
"shop_review_count": 13,
"shop_review_rating": 60,
"marketplace_name": "N/A",
"shop_type": "standalone-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.comspot.de",
"shop_name": "comspot.de"
},
{
"direct_sale": false,
"availability_text": "Lieferzeit: 4-5 Werktage",
"availability_code": "orange",
"voucher": false,
"free_return": "14",
"total": 629,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 629,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "8",
"shop_review_count": 10685,
"shop_review_rating": 80,
"marketplace_name": "N/A",
"shop_type": "standalone-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.alternate.de",
"shop_name": "alternate.de"
},
{
"direct_sale": false,
"availability_text": "voraussichtlich verfügbar ab 24.03.2022",
"availability_code": "grey",
"voucher": false,
"free_return": "30",
"total": 629,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 629,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "9",
"shop_review_count": 24376,
"shop_review_rating": 40,
"marketplace_name": "N/A",
"shop_type": "standalone-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.cyberport.de",
"shop_name": "cyberport.de"
},
{
"direct_sale": false,
"availability_text": "lieferbar Ende März",
"availability_code": "grey",
"voucher": false,
"free_return": "30",
"total": 629,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 629,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "10",
"shop_review_count": 11843,
"shop_review_rating": 80,
"marketplace_name": "N/A",
"shop_type": "standalone-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.otto.de",
"shop_name": "otto.de"
},
{
"direct_sale": false,
"availability_text": "Artikel ist sofort lieferbar",
"availability_code": "green",
"voucher": false,
"free_return": "28",
"total": 648.99,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 648.99,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "11",
"shop_review_count": 5421,
"shop_review_rating": 100,
"marketplace_name": "N/A",
"shop_type": "standalone-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.bueroshop24.de",
"shop_name": "bueroshop24.de"
},
{
"direct_sale": false,
"availability_text": "Lieferung:\n \n \n Fr. 18.02.–Sa. 19.02.",
"availability_code": "green",
"voucher": false,
"free_return": "30",
"total": 649,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 649,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "12",
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"shop_review_rating": 100,
"marketplace_name": "N/A",
"shop_type": "standalone-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.coolblue.de",
"shop_name": "coolblue.de"
},
{
"direct_sale": false,
"availability_text": "Lieferzeit 3-5 Werktage",
"availability_code": "orange",
"voucher": false,
"free_return": "30",
"total": 649,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 649,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "13",
"shop_review_count": 25506,
"shop_review_rating": 90,
"marketplace_name": "N/A",
"shop_type": "standalone-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.computeruniverse.net",
"shop_name": "computeruniverse.net"
},
{
"direct_sale": false,
"availability_text": "Lieferzeit 2-3 Werktage",
"availability_code": "green",
"voucher": false,
"free_return": "14",
"total": 666.16,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 666.16,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "14",
"shop_review_count": 10306,
"shop_review_rating": 90,
"marketplace_name": "N/A",
"shop_type": "standalone-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.jacob.de",
"shop_name": "jacob.de"
},
{
"direct_sale": false,
"availability_text": "Lieferung:\n \n \n Fr. 18.02.–Sa. 19.02.",
"availability_code": "green",
"voucher": false,
"free_return": "30",
"total": 667.49,
"shipping": 0,
"price": 667.49,
"currency": "EUR",
"position": "15",
"shop_review_count": 2329,
"shop_review_rating": 90,
"marketplace_name": "N/A",
"shop_type": "standalone-shop",
"shop_url": "http://www.clevertronic.de",
"shop_name": "clevertronic.de"
}
],
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"price_min": 617.49,
"price_max": 667.49,
"price_avg": 635.41,
"last_updated": "2022-02-17T01:39",
"available_since": "20190910",
"category_ids": [19116],
"categories": [
"Elektroartikel",
"Telekommunikation",
"Handys & Smartphones",
"Apple iPhone 11",
"128GB White"
],
"review_count": 1,
"review_rating": 100,
"url": "https://www.idealo.de/preisvergleich/OffersOfProduct/6765271",
"name": "Apple iPhone 11 128GB White",
"id": "6765271"
},
"success": true
}
]
}
{
"error": true,
"message": "job id incorrect or missing"
}
ORList of possible errors:
List of possible product level errors: