NYnytimes

Best Seller List

get/lists.{format}

Request

Query parameters

liststring

The name of the Times best-seller list. To get valid values, use a list names request.

Be sure to replace spaces with hyphens (e.g., e-book-fiction or hardcover-fiction, not E-Book Fiction or Hardcover Fiction). (The parameter is not case sensitive.)

weeks-on-listinteger

The number of weeks that the best seller has been on list-name, as of bestsellers-date

bestsellers-datestring date-time

YYYY-MM-DD

The week-ending date for the sales reflected on list-name. Times best-seller lists are compiled using available book sale data. The bestsellers-date may be significantly earlier than published-date. For additional information, see the explanation at the bottom of any best-seller list page on NYTimes.com (example: Hardcover Fiction, published Dec. 5 but reflecting sales to Nov. 29).

datestring

YYYY-MM-DD The date the best-seller list was published on NYTimes.com (compare bestsellers-date)

isbnstring

International Standard Book Number, 10 or 13 digits

published-datestring

YYYY-MM-DD

The date the best-seller list was published on NYTimes.com (compare bestsellers-date)

rankinteger

The rank of the best seller on list-name as of bestsellers-date

rank-last-weekinteger

The rank of the best seller on list-name one week prior to bestsellers-date

offsetinteger

Sets the starting point of the result set

sort-order'ASC' | 'DESC'

Sets the sort order of the result set

Response

OK

statusstring
copyrightstring
num_resultsinteger
last_modifiedstring

Changes

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