/softwareadvice/products/search

POST /api/softwareadvice/products/search

Price: 20 credits

List Software Advice (softwareadvice.com) products within a category, with filtering and sorting

How to use it

List and rank software products within a Software Advice (softwareadvice.com) category. Filter by minimum rating, free trial, free version, company-size segment, and maximum starting price; sort by recommendations, rating, reviews, or name. Returns products with name, alias, vendor, pricing plans, rating breakdown, rated features, integrations, and user-sentiment highlights.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• category string required — Software Advice category slug or full category listing URL (e.g. 'crm', 'medical', 'https://www.softwareadvice.com/crm/'). Category slugs come from the categories endpoint. (examples: "crm", "medical", "https://www.softwareadvice.com/crm/"; minLength: 1)
• count integer required — Max number of products to return (min: 1)
• sort string — Result ordering (default: "recommendations"; one of: "recommendations", "rating", "reviews", "name")
• min_rating number nullable — Minimum overall user rating (min: 0; max: 5)
• free_trial boolean nullable — Only products offering a free trial
• free_version boolean nullable — Only products offering a free version
• company_size string nullable — Only products that serve this company-size segment (one of: "small_business", "midsize", "enterprise")
• max_price number nullable — Only products with a plan starting at or below this monthly price (USD) (min: 0)

Response

• @type string (default: "SoftwareadviceSearchProduct")
• 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
• advisor_recommendations_count integer nullable
• has_free_trial boolean nullable
• has_free_version boolean nullable
• price_range integer 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: [])
• review_distribution object nullable
  • @type string (default: "SoftwareadviceRatingDistribution")
  • one integer nullable
  • two integer nullable
  • three integer nullable
  • four integer nullable
  • five integer nullable
• target_company_sizes array (default: [])
• frontrunner_years array (default: [])
• features array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "SoftwareadviceFeature")
  • id string nullable
  • name string required
  • rating number nullable
  • rating_count integer nullable
• integrations array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "SoftwareadviceIntegrationRef")
  • seo_id string nullable
  • name string required
  • image string nullable
  • review_count integer nullable
  • url string nullable
• what_users_love array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "SoftwareadviceSentiment")
  • headline string required
  • content string nullable
  • kind string nullable
  • sentiment integer nullable
  • participation_count integer nullable
• to_take_in_mind array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "SoftwareadviceSentiment")
  • headline string required
  • content string nullable
  • kind string nullable
  • sentiment integer nullable
  • participation_count integer nullable
• reviews_past_12_months_count integer nullable
• reviews_past_6_months_count integer nullable
• modified_at integer nullable
• 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 — Category 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.