BigBasket API

Is there a BigBasket API?

As far as we know, BigBasket offers no public API for its catalogue, its prices or its search results; its seller and ads panels cover a brand’s own account. Shelf reads BigBasket dark store by dark store, every day, and gives the data as screens, Excel and CSV files and alerts. API access is given on request to accounts on a plan.

A drawing of an exported file. The first sheet of a real one says what was read, and when.

In the product

What you see

Products
Name, brand, pack size and category, as the app lists them.
Price and MRP
The price on BigBasket, GST included, and the printed MRP, dark store by dark store.
In stock or out
At each store, at every read.
Search results
The first results of each keyword in each city, paid slots marked.
Paid slots
The brand, keyword, city and place on the page of every paid slot.
Stores
Store id, city and pincode. Never a map position.

The screen

Stock, app by app and city by city

Availability: how often a brand’s products were in stock at the read against a rival’s, app by app, as bars
Brand names are hidden here.

From the read

From what we read

Method

How we read it

  1. 1

    Tell us what you need

    The BigBasket fields, the cities and how often.

  2. 2

    We set it up with you

    A person replies within one working day.

  3. 3

    You get the data

    In Shelf, as Excel and CSV files, by mail, or by API on request.

How it works, step by step · How we read the apps

Why it is needed

What BigBasket shows you, and what it does not.

What BigBasket offers
Seller and ads panels for a brand’s own account. No public API for the catalogue, the prices or the results page.
What Shelf gives
BigBasket’s shelf, search results, paid slots and prices, dated, as screens, files, alerts, and an API on request.

The shape of the data

One BigBasket record.

The same fields come in the Excel and CSV files, and in an API answer for accounts that ask for one.

Ask for API access

Sample recordapplication/json
{
  "app": "bigbasket",
  "read": "YYYY-MM-DD",
  "store": "store id",
  "pincode": "000000",
  "city": "City 1",
  "product": "Sample product, 200 g",
  "brand": "Sample brand",
  "packSize": "200 g",
  "price": 95,
  "mrp": 110,
  "inStock": true,
  "search": {
    "keyword": "Keyword 1",
    "place": 4,
    "paid": false
  }
}

A sample: the names and figures are made up; the fields are the real ones.

Keep reading

More for sellers on BigBasket.

The same on Blinkit, Zepto, Swiggy Instamart, Flipkart Minutes, Amazon Now and JioMart.

Blinkit, Zepto, Swiggy Instamart, BigBasket, Flipkart Minutes, Amazon Now, JioMart, FirstClub, Myntra M-Now, Nykaa Now, Zepto Pharmacy, Zepto Cafe, Bistro, Swish, Supertails, OZi, Peeko, Plazza, Slikk, ZILO, KNOT and DMart Ready, their icons, and the brand names shown in the data, are trademarks of their respective owners. They are used here to identify what was measured. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any of them.

Plans

What each plan includes

All of this is one product, Shelf: Pro opens every screen in full, and Free opens part of each. These are the rows for this page.

What you seeFreeno cardPro₹29,999 a month
Alerts when a price, a stock state or a listing changesEmailEmail, Slack, your own webhook. WhatsApp is not live yet
Excel and CSV of any tableNot on this planUp to 300,000 rows a month

Prices in rupees, per month, GST included. Pay once for 30 days, or turn on autopay and stop it any time. Compare every plan

Questions about BigBasket API

Does Shelf have an API?

API access is given on request to accounts on a plan. Every plan has the screens; Pro has Excel and CSV files of any table, and alerts.

Is this BigBasket’s official data?

No. Shelf is independent of BigBasket. It reads what BigBasket shows a shopper, store by store, and keeps the date of every read.

Does Shelf copy BigBasket’s images or product copy?

No. Shelf keeps facts: names, pack sizes, prices, ranks and stock states.

Can I have my own cities or products read more often?

Hourly reads are set up with a person, for the target cities you name. We reply within one working day.

Do I need my BigBasket seller login?

No. You sign in to Shelf with an email address. Nothing in Shelf is built on a seller login or an ad account.

See the shelf, every day.

Every store read every day. Pick a category and see who leads it, what sells out, who ranks in its searches and who pays for its ads. Free.

No card and no seller login needed.