Compare prices - Aggrefine API

Say you have a “best dog foods” page with ten products. For each one you want the lowest price, the shop that has it, and how much cheaper it is than the most expensive shop.

Fetch each product

Look up every GTIN on the page. The calls are independent, so run them in parallel:

const headers = { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.AGGREFINE_API_KEY}` };

async function getProduct(gtin) {
  const res = await fetch(
    `https://api.aggrefine.com/v0/channels/${channelId}/products/${gtin}`,
    { headers },
  );
  return res.ok ? res.json() : null; // 404: no approved shop sells it
}

const products = (await Promise.all(gtins.map(getProduct))).filter(Boolean);

Pick the cheapest offer

Compare only offers in the same currency and in stock:

const rows = products.map((p) => {
  const offers = p.offers
    .filter((o) => o.availability === "in_stock" && o.currency === "SEK")
    .sort((a, b) => Number(a.price) - Number(b.price));
  if (offers.length === 0) return null;

  const cheapest = offers[0];
  const highest = offers.at(-1);
  return {
    title: p.title,
    image: p.images[0]?.url,
    shop: cheapest.merchant.name,
    price: cheapest.price,
    link: cheapest.affiliate_url,
    shops: offers.length,
    saving: (Number(highest.price) - Number(cheapest.price)).toFixed(2),
  };
}).filter(Boolean);

Show shops as “from 1 279 kr at Nordic Pet, 3 shops” and saving as “save up to 70 kr”.

Keep it fast

Cache each product for five minutes; prices don’t change faster than the merchants’ feeds.
For a large list, render from your own cache and refresh it in the background, rather than calling the API on every page view.
Prices are decimal strings. Number() is fine for sorting and display; use a decimal library if you add them up.