/softwareadvice/products/alternatives

POST /api/softwareadvice/products/alternatives

Price: 20 credits

Get Software Advice (softwareadvice.com) product alternatives by profile path or URL

How to use it

Get ranked alternatives / competitors for a Software Advice (softwareadvice.com) software product by its category-scoped profile path or URL. Returns similar products with name, alias, rating breakdown, pricing, rated features, screenshots, a why-it's-good summary, and canonical URL.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• product string required — Software Advice product identifier. Accepts the category-scoped profile path ('crm/zoho-crm-profile' or '/crm/zoho-crm-profile/') or the full profile URL. (examples: "crm/zoho-crm-profile", "https://www.softwareadvice.com/crm/zoho-crm-profile/"; minLength: 1; pattern: ^(?:https?://[^\s]+|//[^\s]+|(?:www\.|softwareadvice\.com)[^\s]*|/?[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9._/\-]*)$)
• count integer required — Max number of alternatives to return (min: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "SoftwareadviceAlternative")
• id string required
• seo_id string required
• alias string nullable
• name string required
• image string nullable
• vendor_name string nullable
• vendor_website_url string nullable
• rating number nullable
• review_count integer nullable
• ease_of_use_rating number nullable
• customer_support_rating number nullable
• value_for_money_rating number nullable
• functionality_rating number nullable
• why_good string nullable
• pricing object nullable
  • @type string (default: "SoftwareadvicePricing")
  • currency string nullable
  • currency_symbol string nullable
  • price_range integer nullable
  • has_free_trial boolean nullable
  • has_free_version boolean nullable
  • description string nullable
  • plans array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "SoftwareadvicePlan")
    • name string required
    • description string nullable
    • starting_price number nullable
    • custom_price string nullable
    • payment_frequency integer nullable
    • pricing_model integer nullable
    • attributes array (default: [])
• features array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "SoftwareadviceFeature")
  • id string nullable
  • name string required
  • rating number nullable
  • rating_count integer nullable
• screenshots array (default: [])
• url string nullable
• position integer required

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — Product not found Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.