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BigOven Review API

The Review API from BigOven — 6 operation(s) for review.

BigOven Review API is one of 7 APIs that BigOven publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Review. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, pricing, and rate-limit docs.

This API exposes 12 operations across 6 paths, and defines 8 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.0, at version 3.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api2.bigoven.com.

12 operations 6 paths 8 schemas 2 DELETE5 GET2 POST3 PUT

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.0
API Version
3.0
Base URL
https://api2.bigoven.com
Authentication
API Key, HTTP Basic
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 2

BigOven Review API declares 2 security schemes for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the header as X-BigOven-API-Key (api_key). It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basic).

  • api_key — Pass your apikey in the header (recommended) or as a URL parameter. For the URL parameter, use apikey. For the header, send it as a header value for: X-BigOven…
  • basic — Basic HTTP Authentication is used for those endpoint calls where you want to act as a BigOven user -- e.g., to get the list of favorites of a signed-in user, o…

Paths & Operations 12

Across 6 paths, the API surfaces 12 operations — 2 DELETE, 5 GET, 2 POST, 3 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Review 12
DELETE
/recipe/review/replies/{replyId}
DELETE a reply to a given review. Authenticated user must be the one who originally posted the reply.
Review_DeleteReply 1 param → 200
PUT
/recipe/review/replies/{replyId}
Update (PUT) a reply to a given review. Authenticated user must be the original one that posted the reply.
Review_PutReply 1 param body → 200
GET
/recipe/review/{reviewId}
Get a given review by string-style ID. This will return a payload with FeaturedReply, ReplyCount. Recommended display is to list top-level reviews with one featured reply underneath. Currently, the F…
1 param → 200
PUT
/recipe/review/{reviewId}
Update a given top-level review.
Review_Put 1 param body → 200
GET
/recipe/review/{reviewId}/replies
Get a paged list of replies for a given review.
Review_GetReplies 3 params → 200
POST
/recipe/review/{reviewId}/replies
POST a reply to a given review. The date will be set by server. Note that replies no longer have star ratings, only top-level reviews do.
Review_PostReply 1 param body → 200
GET
/recipe/{recipeId}/review
Get my review for the recipe {recipeId}, where "me" is determined by standard authentication headers
1 param → 200
POST
/recipe/{recipeId}/review
Add a new review. Only one review can be provided per {userId, recipeId} pair. Otherwise your review will be updated.
Review_Post 1 param body → 200
DELETE
/recipe/{recipeId}/review/{reviewId}
DEPRECATED! - Deletes a review by recipeId and reviewId. Please use recipe/review/{reviewId} instead.
Review_Delete 2 params → 200
GET
/recipe/{recipeId}/review/{reviewId}
Get a given review - DEPRECATED. See recipe/review/{reviewId} for the current usage. Beginning in January 2017, BigOven moded from an integer-based ID system to a GUID-style string-based ID system fo…
Review_Get 2 params → 200
PUT
/recipe/{recipeId}/review/{reviewId}
HTTP PUT (update) a recipe review. DEPRECATED. Please see recipe/review/{reviewId} PUT for the new endpoint. We are moving to a string-based primary key system, no longer integers, for reviews and re…
Review_PutLegacy 2 params body → 200
GET
/recipe/{recipeId}/reviews
Get paged list of reviews for a recipe. Each review will have at most one FeaturedReply, as well as a ReplyCount.
Review_GetReviews 3 params → 200

Schemas 8

The contract defines 8 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are BigOven.Model.API.Review (14 properties), BigOven.Model.API.UserInfo (13 properties), API2.Controllers.WebAPI.ReviewController.ReviewRequestLegacy (7 properties), BigOven.Model.API.Reply (6 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

BigOven.Model.API.UserInfoTiny
object
5 properties
API2.Controllers.WebAPI.ReviewController.ReviewRequest
object
Payload for reviews
5 properties
BigOven.Model.API.Reply
object
6 properties
BigOven.Model.API.UserInfo
object
13 properties
System.Object
object
API2.Controllers.WebAPI.ReviewController.ReviewRequestLegacy
object
Legacy -- This object here is deprecated. Please use the new "ReviewRequest" structure for all future development
7 properties
API2.Controllers.WebAPI.ReviewController.PostReplyReq
object
Reply request parameters
1 property
BigOven.Model.API.Review
object
14 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

bigoven-review-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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