Product Reference

The API provides bulk delivery of getting all active products in the US market in the last 52 weeks. Any products that are new or whose characteristics have been modified in the last 1 week, 4 weeks, and 13 weeks need to be captured as a delta during the weekly data reload/refresh, and delta list can be delivered by the API as well. The API can also filter the products by Category. In addition, if given a 12-digit UPC, the API should fetch the associated list of characteristics.

GET

AllCategories

https://api.developer.nielsen.com/NLSNAPI/prodRef/v1/allCategories

The Category Metadata API fetches all existing active categories.

GET

AllProducts

https://api.developer.nielsen.com/NLSNAPI/prodRef/v1/allProducts

The API takes category as an optional input, retrieves data from weekly refreshed NDX database (Data Extract job will explained later), and provides all active products selling in the US market in the last 52 weeks in the form of a .txt file that is downloaded by the user.

GET

GetProductInfo

https://api.developer.nielsen.com/NLSNAPI/prodRef/v1/products/{upc}

The API takes the UPC as part of Request URI, and fetches the required product characteristics for this given UPC.

GET

UpdateProducts

https://api.developer.nielsen.com/NLSNAPI/prodRef/v1/updateProducts

The API takes the period as required input, ex. latest 13 weeks, 4 weeks, or latest 1 week, and category as an optional input, retrieves data from the weekly refreshed NDX database (Data Extract job will explained later), and provides all products selling in the US market that are new or have been modified during that period.