Bazaarvoice Clients API

openapi: 3.0.0
info:
  title: Bazaarvoice Content Search Answers Clients API
  description: Bazaarvoice Developer Space V2.0 Content Search API. Provides programmatic search and retrieval of user-generated content (UGC) - Reviews, Questions, Answers, Contributor profiles - plus product catalog lookahead search and structured data (JSON-LD/Microdata) for products. Assembled by API Evangelist from the per-operation OpenAPI definitions published on developers.bazaarvoice.com reference pages.
  version: '2.0'
  contact:
    name: Bazaarvoice Developer Support
    url: https://developers.bazaarvoice.com/support
servers:
- url: https://content-search.eu-west-1a.bosun.qa.bazaarvoice.com/
  description: QA | Content Search
- url: https://seo-stg.bazaarvoice.com/structured-data/v1
  description: Staging Server
- url: https://seo.bazaarvoice.com/structured-data/v1
  description: Production Server
tags:
- name: Clients
paths:
  /clients/{client-id}/ugc:
    get:
      summary: Fetch Structured Data (JSON-LD or Microdata)
      description: Retrieves structured data for a specific product. This is the recommended endpoint that accepts product-id as a query parameter.
      operationId: getStructuredDataV2
      security:
      - Bv-Passkey: []
      parameters:
      - name: client-id
        in: path
        description: The name of the client. Can contain special characters.
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
        example: yourclientid
      - name: productId
        in: query
        description: The ID of the product. Can contain special characters.
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
        example: product1
      - name: Bv-Forwarded-User-Agent
        in: header
        description: Clients will need to send User-Agent of consumers accessing the PDP page
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          example: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; ChatGPT-User/1.0; +https://openai.com/bot
      - name: User-Agent
        in: header
        description: Clients will need to send User-Agent of their backend http client
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9\s\(\)\[\]\{\}\/\.\-_;:,+]+$
          minLength: 10
          maxLength: 500
          example: Apache-HttpClient/4.5.8 (Java/1.8.0_191)
      - name: Accept
        in: header
        description: Accept header must be empty or omitted. The API will return the default content type (text/javascript) for now, in future this might change.
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          maxLength: 0
          example: ''
      - name: q
        in: query
        description: 'A JSON-encoded query object containing parameters for various content types. Refer to Bazaarvoice CV2 documentation for specific filter and sort values.

          '
        required: false
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                reviews:
                  type: object
                  additionalProperties: true
                  properties:
                    sort:
                      type: string
                    filter:
                      type: array
                      items:
                        type: string
                    limit:
                      type: string
                    offset:
                      type: string
                ratings:
                  type: object
                  properties:
                    filter:
                      type: array
                      items:
                        type: string
                questions:
                  type: object
                  nullable: true
                reviewSummary:
                  type: object
                  nullable: true
            example:
              reviews:
                filter:
                - productid:eq:product1
                limit: '1'
                offset: '0'
                sort: submissiontime:desc
      - name: canonical
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          format: uri
        description: The exact identifier string used in your Product Schema's `@id` field. **CRITICAL REQUIREMENT:** For search engines to associate these reviews with your product, the string you send here **MUST BE IDENTICAL** (character-for-character) to the `@id` you assign to the Product object in your own schema generation. **Recommended Format:** Product Canonical URL + `#product` fragment.
        example: https://www.example.com/running-shoe#product
      - name: locale
        in: query
        description: Locale to display Labels, Configuration, Product Attributes and Category Attributes in. The default value is the locale defined in the display associated with the API key.
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          example: en_US
      - name: siteId
        in: query
        description: Site ID of the implementation, default will be main_site
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          example: main_site
      responses:
        '200':
          description: 'Returns JSONLD by default for reviews and ratings.

            '
          headers:
            Vary:
              description: Indicates which request headers affect the response
              schema:
                type: string
                example: Origin, Accept-Encoding, Accept
            Cache-Control:
              description: Caching directives (default 55 minutes)
              schema:
                type: string
                example: public, max-age=3300
          content:
            application/ld+json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/JsonLdResponseJSONFormat'
            text/javascript:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/JsonLdResponseScript'
            text/html:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/MicrodataResponse'
        '400':
          description: Bad Request, Validation failed for the request
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
              example:
                type: /problems/bad-request
                title: Bad Request
                status: 400
                detail: Bv-passkey is required
                instance: /clients/clientid/ugc
            text/html:
              schema:
                type: string
              example: "<html>\n  <head><title>400 Bad Request</title></head>\n  <body>\n    <h1>Bad Request</h1>\n    <p><strong>Status:</strong> 400</p>\n    <p><strong>Detail:</strong> Bv-passkey is required</p>\n    <p><strong>Type:</strong> /problems/bad-request </p>\n    <p><strong>Instance:</strong> /clients/clientid/ugc</p>\n  </body>\n</html>\n"
            text/javascript:
              schema:
                type: string
              example: "<script type=\"application/json\" id=\"bv-error-data\">\n{\n  \"type\": \"/problems/bad-request\",\n  \"status\": 400,\n  \"title\": \"Bad Request\",\n  \"detail\": \"Bv-Passkey is required\",\n  \"instance\": \"/clients/clientid/ugc\"\n}\n</script>\n"
        '401':
          description: Unauthorized
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
              example:
                type: /problems/unauthorized
                title: Unauthorized
                status: 401
                detail: Invalid Bv-Passkey
                instance: /clients/clientid/ugc
            text/html:
              schema:
                type: string
              example: "<html>\n  <head><title>401 Unauthorized</title></head>\n  <body>\n    <h1>Unauthorized</h1>\n    <p><strong>Status:</strong> 401</p>\n    <p><strong>Detail:</strong> Invalid Bv-Passkey</p>\n    <p><strong>Type:</strong> /problems/unauthorized</p>\n    <p><strong>Instance:</strong> /clients/clientid/ugc</p>\n  </body>\n</html>\n"
            text/javascript:
              schema:
                type: string
              example: "<script type=\"application/json\" id=\"bv-error-data\">\n{\n  \"type\": \"/problems/unauthorized\",\n  \"status\": 401,\n  \"title\": \"Unauthorized\",\n  \"detail\": \"Invalid Bv-Passkey\",\n  \"instance\": \"/clients/clientid/ugc\"\n}\n</script>\n"
        default:
          description: Internal Server Error
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
              example:
                type: /problems/unexpected-error
                title: Internal Server Error
                status: 500
                detail: Internal Server Error
                instance: /clients/clientid/ugc
            text/html:
              schema:
                type: string
              example: "<html>\n  <head><title>500 Internal Server Error</title></head>\n  <body>\n    <h1>Internal Server Error</h1>\n    <p><strong>Status:</strong> 500</p>\n    <p><strong>Detail:</strong> Internal Server Error</p>\n    <p><strong>Type:</strong>/problems/unexpected-error</p>\n    <p><strong>Instance:</strong> /clients/clientid/ugc</p>\n  </body>\n</html>\n"
            text/javascript:
              schema:
                type: string
              example: "<script type=\"application/json\" id=\"bv-error-data\">\n  {\n    \"type\": \"/problems/unexpected-error\",\n    \"status\": 500,\n    \"title\": \"Internal Server Error\",\n    \"detail\": \"Internal Server Error\",\n    \"instance\": \"/clients/clientid/ugc\"\n  }\n</script>\n"
      tags:
      - Clients
components:
  schemas:
    MicrodataResponse:
      type: string
      description: HTML containing Microdata tags. Review schema - https://schema.org/Review , Aggregate Rating schema - https://schema.org/AggregateRating
      example: "<div itemscope itemtype=\"https://schema.org/IndividualProduct\" itemid=\"https://www.example.com/skincare/acne/blemish-patches\">\n  <h1 itemprop=\"name\">Acne Patches</h1>\n  <div itemprop=\"aggregateRating\" itemscope itemtype=\"https://schema.org/AggregateRating\">\n    Rated \n    <span itemprop=\"ratingValue\">4.7</span> out of \n    <span itemprop=\"bestRating\">5</span> based on \n    <span itemprop=\"reviewCount\">873</span> reviews.\n  </div>\n</div>\n"
    ErrorResponse:
      type: object
      required:
      - type
      - title
      - status
      - detail
      - instance
      properties:
        type:
          type: string
          format: uri-reference
        title:
          type: string
        status:
          type: integer
          format: int32
        detail:
          type: string
        instance:
          type: string
    JsonLdResponseScript:
      type: string
      description: JSON-LD structured data object inside script tag, Review schema - https://schema.org/Review , Aggregate Rating schema - https://schema.org/AggregateRating
      example: "<script type=\"application/ld+json\">\n{\n  \"@context\": \"https://schema.org/\",\n  \"@id\": \"https://www.example.com/skincare/acne/blemish-patches\",\n  \"aggregateRating\": {\n    \"@type\": \"AggregateRating\",\n    \"ratingValue\": \"4.7\",\n    \"reviewCount\": 873,\n    \"bestRating\": 5\n  }\n}\n</script>\n"
    JsonLdResponseJSONFormat:
      type: object
      description: JSON-LD structured data object inside script tag
      properties:
        reviews:
          type: object
          description: contains https://schema.org/Review schema in form of array
        questions:
          type: object
          description: contains https://schema.org/FAQPage
        ratings:
          type: object
          description: contains https://schema.org/AggregateRating
        reviewSummary:
          type: object
          description: contains https://schema.org/Review schema in form of array
      example:
        ratings:
          '@context': https://schema.org/
          '@id': https://www.example.com/skincare/acne/blemish-patches
          aggregateRating:
            '@type': AggregateRating
            ratingValue: '4.7'
            reviewCount: 873
            bestRating: 5
  securitySchemes:
    Bv-Passkey:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: Bv-Passkey
      description: GEO API key for authentication