Best Seller List Overview
GET {{baseUrl}}/lists/overview.{{format}}
Get top 5 books for all the Best Sellers lists for specified date.
Request Params
| Key | Datatype | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
published_date | string | The best-seller list publication date. YYYY-MM-DD |
You do not have to specify the exact date the list was published. The service will search forward (into the future) for the closest publication date to the date you specify. For example, a request for lists/overview/2013-05-22 will retrieve the list that was published on 05-26.
If you do not include a published_date, the current week's best-sellers lists will be returned. |
| api-key | string | | |
RESPONSES
status: OK
{"copyright":"Copyright (c) 2016 The New York Times Company. All Rights Reserved.","num_results":210,"results":{"bestsellers_date":"2016-03-05","lists":[{"books":[{"age_group":"","author":"Clive Cussler and Justin Scott","contributor":"by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott","contributor_note":"","created_date":"2016-03-10 12:00:22","description":"In the ninth book in this series, set in 1906, the New York detective Isaac Bell contends with a crime boss passing as a respectable businessman and a tycoon’s plot against President Theodore Roosevelt.","price":0,"primary_isbn10":"0698406427","primary_isbn13":"9780698406421","publisher":"Putnam","rank":1,"title":"THE GANGSTER","updated_date":"2016-03-10 17:00:21"}],"display_name":"Combined Print \u0026 E-Book Fiction","list_id":704,"list_image":"http://du.ec2.nytimes.com.s3.amazonaws.com/prd/books/9780399175954.jpg","list_name":"Combined Print and E-Book Fiction","updated":"WEEKLY"}],"published_date":"2016-03-20"},"status":"OK"}