Sales Estimation

sales estimation results when making a request with the type parameter https //docs trajectdata com/rainforestapi/product data api/parameters/sales estimation set to type=sales estimation rainforest api will return estimated sales for the given asin or bestseller rank for full details of how rainforest sales estimations are constructed and the methodology behind them please review the sales estimation parameters https //docs trajectdata com/rainforestapi/product data api/parameters/sales estimation an example of the json object returned from a sales estimation request is shown below { "request info" { "success" true, "credits used" 1, "credits remaining" 999 }, "request metadata" { "id" "763fc1a4b3eb053f5c8f20f12655b09dfd36130d", "created at" "2020 01 01t00 00 00 000z", "processed at" "2020 01 01t00 00 00 001z", "total time taken" 0 1 }, "request parameters" { "type" "sales estimation", "asin" "b07gy4ds42", "amazon domain" "amazon com" }, "sales estimation" { "has sales estimation" true, "monthly sales estimate" 7921, "weekly sales estimate" 1980, "bestseller rank" 2, "sales estimation category" "appliances" } } note if it is not possible for rainforest to retrieve a sales estimation for a given asin or bestseller rank request parameter (for example, because the product is ranked very low and rainforest does not have sufficient data to perform a prediction) then no sales estimation will be returned rainforest api returns the following properties for sales estimation requests property type description sales estimation object sales estimation object an object containing the sales estimation result monthly sales estimate string the estimated monthly unit sales of the asin or bestseller rank specified in the sales estimation request for details of the methodology rainforest usees in generating sales estimations please review the sales estimation parameters https //docs trajectdata com/rainforestapi/product data api/parameters/sales estimation weekly sales estimate string the estimated weekly unit sales of the asin or bestseller rank specified in the sales estimation request for details of the methodology rainforest usees in generating sales estimations please review the sales estimation parameters https //docs trajectdata com/rainforestapi/product data api/parameters/sales estimation bestseller rank string the bestseller rank used by rainforest in generating the sales estimation data sales estimation category string the sales estimation category used to perform the sales estimation prediction sales estimation categories are the top level amazon category that the given asin ranks in for a full list of sales estimation categories see the sales estimation categories reference https //docs trajectdata com/rainforestapi/product data api/reference/sales estimation category names has sales estimation boolean true / false depending on whether sufficient data exists for rainforest to generate a sales estimation rainforest sales estimation works using an internal algorithm utilizing signals from an asin's product page, bestseller rank, reviews, search result rankings and known sales datapoints to generate estimated weekly and monthly sales volumes rainforest must have sufficient datapoints available in order to generate a sales estimation message string where has sales estimation=false then message contains an full text explaination of why a sales estimation was not available for the given request parameters next steps sales estimation parameters https //docs trajectdata com/rainforestapi/product data api/parameters/sales estimation sales estimation categories https //docs trajectdata com/rainforestapi/product data api/reference/sales estimation category names