generated: '2026-08-27'
method: searched
source: https://github.com/BestBuyAPIs/bestbuy-cli + https://www.npmjs.com/package/bestbuy-cli
description: >-
  Best Buy ships one first-party CLI, bestbuy-cli, published from the BestBuyAPIs GitHub
  organization. It is a bulk-extraction tool rather than a general API console: it downloads
  data from the Best Buy Catalog API in bulk from the command line. Last released 1.1.1 on
  2017-11-21 and last pushed to the repo 2021-04-22 — functional in intent but unmaintained.
name: bestbuy-cli
official: true
repository: https://github.com/BestBuyAPIs/bestbuy-cli
registry: npm
package: bestbuy-cli
version: 1.1.1
published: '2017-11-21'
install:
- method: npm
  command: npm install -g bestbuy-cli
surface:
- group: catalog
  purpose: Bulk download of Best Buy Catalog API data (products, stores, categories) to local files
  auth: Best Buy developer API key (query-string apiKey), same credential as the REST API
key_flows:
- name: Bulk catalog extract
  description: Pull the product catalog in bulk rather than paging the REST API by hand, which is the practical way to work inside the 5 req/sec ceiling.
gaps:
- No first-party interactive API console or REPL; the closest thing is the browser-based Query Builder at https://bestbuyapis.github.io/bby-query-builder/
- No shell completion, no config profile management, no output-format flags documented publicly