instacart Items API
Endpoints for updating item-level attributes such as pricing and availability at specific store locations. Items contain information that can vary from one store to another.
instacart Items API is one of 12 APIs that Instacart publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification and an AsyncAPI event-driven specification.
Tagged areas include Item. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and an AsyncAPI specification.
This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 4 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 2.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://connect.instacart.com.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
instacart Items API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (bearerAuth).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
bearerAuth— OAuth 2.0 Bearer token obtained using client credentials with the connect:dataingestion scope.
Paths & Operations 1
Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Endpoints for updating item-level attributes such as pricing and availability at specific store locations. Items contain information that can vary from one store to another.
Schemas 4
The contract defines 4 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Item (10 properties), SubmissionResponse (4 properties), Error (2 properties), ItemSubmissionRequest (1 property). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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