Getting Started

Environments

The Product Sentiment Insights API supports the following environments:

Environment	Domain	Description
Staging	https://stg.api.bazaarvoice.com	Used while developing your application.
Production	https://api.bazaarvoice.com	Used when your application is complete.

These environments use different API keys and as a result have independent rate limits. This allows you to develop applications using the staging environment without jeopardising the stability of the production environment. However, both environments will return production data.

Authentication

To authenticate your application, it is necessary to include the API key in the request header.

Header	Description
Authorization	Passkey (your API Key) to uniquely identify and authenticate the client making the API request to access resources

Due to security enhancements, our request authentication method for the Product Sentiment API has been updated. Unlike our other existing APIs that expect the passkey in the query parameter, the Product Sentiment API now requires the passkey to be included in the request header.

Failure to adhere to this updated authentication method or continuing to use the older approach will result in a Forbidden (403) error. Please ensure that you modify your requests accordingly to avoid any authentication issues.