stores_api.md

Stores API

The Store object

Attributes:

• location_type: Whether the location is a Store or a Warehouse
• long_name: Full store name
• name: Store name
• opening_time: See opening_time
• phone: Store phone number; phone number for Express stores goes to Best Buy Customer Service
• services: Collection of services offered at each Best Buy store
• store_id: Store number
• store_type: Indicates the type of store, and is only present if locationType is ‘Store’. See the official documentation for more details
• store_address: See The Address object

opening_time

Array of hashes containing info about the opening hours for each day for the next two weeks. It has the following keys:

• :day: Name of the day of the week (e.g.: 'Sunday')
• :date: Date of the day (string formatted as: YYYY-MM-DD)
• :open: Opening time (24-hour clock. E.g.: '10:00'. 'Close' if the store is closed)
• :close: Closing time (24-hour clock. E.g.: '21:00'. 'Close' if the store is closed)

The Address object

Object that keeps all the address information of the store.

Attributes:

• address: Street address
• address2: Street address 2 provides additional street address information for the Best Buy store in the result set
• city: City name
• region: State, territory
• country: Country name
• postal_code: 5-digit postal code
• full_postal_code: 9-digit postal code if available for store location
• gmt_offset: Time difference from GMT
• lat: Latitude
• lng: Longitude

Note: All these attributes are accessible directly by the Store object

store = Store.new({ address: '50 Holyoke St' })
store.address # returns '50 Holyoke St'

Interface

(For more methods, check the common API interface)

find(store_id)

Returns the store matching the requested ID.

Params:

• store_id: The ID of the required store

Returns: a Store object

store_id = 418

BestBuy::Stores.new(your_api_key).find(store_id)