ShopSavvy for Jekyll

A Jekyll plugin that adds Liquid tags ({% shopsavvy_product %}, {% shopsavvy_deals %}, {% shopsavvy_price %}) and a shopsavvy_lookup filter for embedding live product data in static sites at build time. Backed by per-build response caching for fast rebuilds.

Set up ShopSavvy for Jekyll

1. 1

   Get a ShopSavvy Data API key

   Create a key at shopsavvy.com/data. Keys look like ss_live_ followed by 32 characters. Keep it out of source control.

2. 2

   Install

   Add the ShopSavvy Jekyll integration to your project:

   gem install jekyll-shopsavvy

3. 3

   Add your API key

   Set the SHOPSAVVY_API_KEY environment variable to your key (shell, .env file or Jekyll's secrets settings), or pass it to the client as the README shows.

4. 4

   Make your first call

   From the shopsavvy/jekyll-shopsavvy README (Install):

   group :jekyll_plugins do
     gem "jekyll-shopsavvy"
   end

   Copied from the repository README.

5. 5

   Install

   From the shopsavvy/jekyll-shopsavvy README (Install):

   plugins:
     - jekyll-shopsavvy
   
   shopsavvy:
     api_key: ENV["SHOPSAVVY_API_KEY"]

   Copied from the repository README.

Keys come with a Data API plan. See plans.

Features

Use Cases

What data, how often, which direction

Data

Product records, current offers from tens of thousands of retailers and price history back to 2011, dense from 2019, from the ShopSavvy Data API. Prices are in US dollars.

How often

Every offer carries the time it was last checked. With the Data API you can schedule refreshes hourly, daily or weekly for retailers we can re-check through an official retailer API; other retailers update as ShopSavvy sees them.

Direction

ShopSavvy data flows into Jekyll. Requests carry only what you ask about (identifiers, search terms or schedules) and your API key.

FAQ

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