Product Updates

product updates we're continuously updating bluecart api to add features and functionality, most of which are a direct result of requests from customers see the latest updates below within the bluecart api dashboard https //app bluecartapi com/product updates you can subscribe to be alerted via email when new updates are released may 2025 update type access ingredient lists for grocery and health products enhancement we’re excited to share that our bluecart api now supports the extraction of ingredient lists for products on walmart com—giving you deeper visibility into grocery, health, and beauty product attributes directly from type=product queries what's new ingredient data is now captured and returned as a structured field for supported products via the type=product endpoint this includes items like packaged foods and beverages supplements and wellness items health and beauty products (e g , creams, shampoos) ingredients are returned in the ingredients field of the product object as a string, when available how to use it no changes to your api request are needed simply continue using "type" "product" if the walmart product includes an ingredient list, it will automatically be returned in your response like so "ingredients" "water, glycerin, stearic acid, ", why it matters this enhancement gives your applications richer, more actionable product data—especially useful for nutrition analysis and dietary compliance health conscious shopping apps ingredient level filtering for consumer product databases it’s a simple addition with high value, enabling new use cases with zero added integration effort for questions or help getting started with this update, please reach out to your customer success manager or to our support team https //trajectdata com/contact us/ update type save more & stay covered with two new billing features enhancement we’ve launched two new features to help you save money and reduce billing related disruptions 1 switch to an annual plan & save up to 20% you can now upgrade to an annual plan and enjoy up to 20% in savings over monthly billing it’s the same api you rely on, just with more value and fewer invoices many customers are switching to annual to simplify billing and lock in long term savings how to switch to an annual plan 1 log in to your account 2 navigate to account in the left hand navigation 3 go to plan & payment 4 click choose a plan , then select your preferred annual plan log in to your account to get started and switch to an annual plan today! 2 add a backup credit card to acvoid disruptions you can now add a secondary credit card to your account if your primary card fails (due to expiration, fraud blocks, or insufficient funds), we’ll automatically attempt to charge your backup — helping you avoid account suspension and api service interruptions how to add a backup card 1 log in to your account 2 navigate to account in the left hand navigation 3 go to plan & payment 4 click manage payment method 5 click add a new card and enter your backup credit card details 6 you can set it as default at any time with the set as default option log in to your account to manage your payment methods for questions or help getting started with this update, please reach out to your customer success manager or to our support team https //trajectdata com/contact us/ april 2024 update type detail new feature bluecart api now supports canadian walmart data we’re excited to announce that the bluecart api now supports walmart ca —enabling you to scrape structured product and search data directly from walmart’s canadian site this expansion helps you tap into the canadian ecommerce landscape and track inventory, pricing, and product listings at scale what’s new you can now use the bluecart api to scrape product detail pages (type=product) search results pages (type=search) — from walmart ca, canada’s version of walmart com while both types are supported, only type=product supports store level granularity using the store id parameter how to use it to target walmart canada, include this domain override in your request "walmart domain" "walmart ca" if you’re using type=product, you’ll also need to specify a store id to get localized data "store id" "1234" please note type=search works for walmart ca but does not support store level targeting additional technical features supports search filtering (where url parameters are available) automated cookie handling and perimeterx mitigation handled behind the scenes what this means for you this unlocks access to canadian walmart product and search data—enabling you to monitor regional availability and pricing (via type=product + store id) expand coverage into the canadian market build more locally aware applications for ecommerce, price tracking, and retail analytics for questions or help getting started with walmart ca data collection, please reach out to our support team or your customer success manager update type detail deprecation of bluecart walmart offers feature after careful consideration and thorough evaluation, we have made the difficult decision to deprecate the bluecart walmart offers feature, effective march 29, 2024, due to several reasons that have collectively impacted its performance and reliability one of the primary factors contributing to this decision is the implementation of anti scraping measures by walmart these measures have made it increasingly challenging to extract data reliably, resulting in a significant degradation of our service’s performance despite our efforts to mitigate these challenges, we have found ourselves unable to guarantee the consistent and reliable performance of the walmart offers feature over the past few months, we have explored various approaches to address these issues, including enlisting additional third party services to stabilize our scraping efforts however, even with these measures in place, we have experienced a further degradation of service our third party provider has informed us of this degradation, leading us to the conclusion that it is no longer feasible to support the walmart offers feature we understand that this decision may inconvenience some of our customers who have come to rely on this feature please know that this decision was not made lightly, and we have exhausted all available options in an attempt to maintain the functionality and reliability of the walmart offers feature we sincerely apologize for any disruption this may cause, and we remain committed to providing you with the best possible experience on our platform if you have any questions or concerns regarding this update, please do not hesitate to reach out to our support team at hello\@bluecartapi com thank you for your understanding and continued support july 2023 update type detail meet our newest api! 🎉 we’ve just launched backyard api , our real time lowe’s product data api and companion to bigbox api for home improvement data let us know what you think of our newest addition or if you need any help as always, you can try it out free! april 2023 update type detail business update as a result of significant growth, our infrastructure — namely the dynamic routing of traffic to accommodate high volume customers — has recently required updates reworking architecture patterns and proxy configurations has taken us a fair amount of time, which in turn has led to some slower customer issue resolution we'd like to assure you that we’ve identified and corrected the infrastructural shortcomings, and the outcome is a 50% increase in infrastructure and proxy capacity we apologize for the potential business interruptions you may have experienced over the last couple months our aim is to earn your trust back and continue to support the realization of your business goals please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you require further information feburary 2023 update type detail new feature help us choose our next api! what should we build next? our product team values your feedback if you'd like to, let us know your thoughts on which apis to include on our roadmap survey https //forms gle/gdbq3qftn3gitbe96 june 2022 update type detail enhancement indication in category / search results if lowest priced variant pricing is shown a new boolean is minimum price for variant is now returned in search and category results indicating whether the price shown is the actual price of the variant or the lowest price of any variant (typically indicated on the walmart site by the presence of the "from " indicator in front of the price in the case of a is minimum price for variant=true further product page requests would be required to retrieve the per variant pricing read more https //docs trajectdata com/bluecartapi/walmart product data api/results/category new feature support for custom s3 compatible object stores in destinations it's now possible to specify a custom s3 endpoint to have destinations upload result sets to any s3 compatible object store read more https //docs trajectdata com/bluecartapi/destinations api/overview new feature reviews from walmart canada added it is now possible for bluecart to return product reviews from walmart canada (walmart ca), in addition to walmart us (walmart com) just add the walmart domain=walmart ca to your type=reviews request to retrieve reviews from the walmart canada site read more https //docs trajectdata com/bluecartapi/walmart product data api/results/reviews may 2022 update type detail enhancement other others returned for product requests a new field buybox winner offers from price has been added to type=product requests to return the monetary value of the "other offer" shown under the compare all sellers section of the product page read more https //docs trajectdata com/bluecartapi/walmart product data api/results/product april 2022 update type detail enhancement protection plans data added to product response a new property protection plans has been added to bluecart's type=product response the property details any protection plans offered with the current product read more https //docs trajectdata com/bluecartapi/walmart product data api/results/product enhancement in store aisle location added to product response a new property of " aisle " has been added to the product ( type=product ) api response showing the in store aisle location of the requested product you can set the store used to in your request by way of the customer zipcode request parameter read more https //docs trajectdata com/bluecartapi/walmart product data api/results/product feburary 2022 update type detail new feature walmart autocomplete results bluecart can now return autocomplete results using the new type=autocomplete request read more https //docs trajectdata com/bluecartapi/%e2%80%8bhttps //www bluecartapi com/docs/walmart product data api/parameters/autocomplete november 2021 update type detail enhancement select all csv fields we have added select all / select none options to quickly select all csv fields in the collection editor and api playground to make choosing csv fields much quicker read more https //app bluecartapi com/ october 2021 update type detail enhancement full product descriptions added to product page response the full product description is now returned in the description full property for type=product api responses previously only the abridged description was returned the full product description, including html formatting, is also returned in the description full html property read more https //docs trajectdata com/bluecartapi/walmart product data api/results/product september 2021 update type detail new feature seller profile response type added bluecart now supports retrieving seller profile data using the new type=seller profile api request read more https //docs trajectdata com/bluecartapi/walmart product data api/parameters/seller profile enhancement filter collections by last run date the collections list api has been updated to allow sorting collections by last run date you can also now filter the collections by date using the last run before and last run after request parameters the collections dashboard has also been updated to show the last run date for each collection read more https //docs trajectdata com/bluecartapi/collections api/collections/list august 2021 update type detail enhancement per minute collection scheduling improvements the per x minutes collection scheduling options have been extended to allow you to run collections on a "per x minute" schedule restricted to specific hours of the day and days of the week or month the schedule hours , schedule days of week and schedule days of month can now be used with schedule type=minutes collections for additional flexibility this allows for scenarios such as "run this collection every 5 minutes, between 9am and 5pm, on weekdays only" read more https //docs trajectdata com/bluecartapi/collections api/collections/create new feature run collections on a per minute schedule collections can now be scheduled on a per minute basis, in addition to the existing hourly, daily, weekly and monthly schedules set schedule type=minutes when creating your collection and specify the per minute schedule using the schedule minutes parameter per minute schedules of every minute up to every hour are supported read more https //docs trajectdata com/bluecartapi/collections api/collections/create new feature categories api available for easily traversing the walmart category hierarchy a new categories api is now available on bluecart for easily traversing the walmart category hierarchy to obtain category id values for use in type=category requests using the categories api it's easy to enqueue category requests to iterate the category hierarchy and obtain product listings with subsequent type=category requests there is a visual categories browser available on the bluecart dashboard to experiment with the categories api and generate code samples https //app bluecartapi com/categories https //app bluecartapi com/categories read more https //docs trajectdata com/bluecartapi/categories api/overview new feature search category ids available for search requests easily refine your type=search requests using search category ids if you supply a supported search category id into the category id request parameter of a type=search request the search results will be restricted to just the search category selected this allows to easily set up search queries for, for example, "skateboards" in the "sports and outdoors" category area read more https //docs trajectdata com/bluecartapi/walmart product data api/reference/search category ids new feature account balance added to account api the account api has been updated to include your current account balance in the account balance usd property your account balance is used to settle any overage charges (to avoid multiple small overage charges being made to your payment card) you can top up your account balance at any time on the account page of the dashboard read more https //docs trajectdata com/bluecartapi/account api new feature new collections api endpoint to stop all queued and running collections the new stop all collections api https //docs trajectdata com/bluecartapi/collections api/collections/stop all endpoint allows you to stop all running and queued collections on your account in one api call useful if you have accidentally started a large number of collections and need a quick way to set them all back to idle read more https //docs trajectdata com/bluecartapi/collections api/collections/stop all we started publishing product updates in june 2021, please refer to update emails for updates before this date