How to lookup a Barcode Value and return Product Data in Python

Barcodes are a crucial aspect of many businesses, so today we will be setting up a method for using them to look up product data. We shall use an API to speed us on our way.

We will install our client first.

pip install cloudmersive-barcode-api-client

Now we can call barcode_lookup_ean_lookup with this code here. This will simply require our barcode value as a string. This value can be obtained from a photo with our scan barcode API function.

from __future__ import print_function
import time
import cloudmersive_barcode_api_client
from cloudmersive_barcode_api_client.rest import ApiException
from pprint import pprint
# Configure API key authorization: Apikey
configuration = cloudmersive_barcode_api_client.Configuration()
configuration.api_key['Apikey'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
# Uncomment below to setup prefix (e.g. Bearer) for API key, if needed
# configuration.api_key_prefix['Apikey'] = 'Bearer'
# create an instance of the API class
api_instance = cloudmersive_barcode_api_client.BarcodeLookupApi(cloudmersive_barcode_api_client.ApiClient(configuration))
value = 'value_example' # str | Barcode value
try:
# Lookup a barcode value and return product data
api_response = api_instance.barcode_lookup_ean_lookup(value)
pprint(api_response)
except ApiException as e:
print("Exception when calling BarcodeLookupApi->barcode_lookup_ean_lookup: %s\n" % e)

Now run the code and your product data will be returned, simple as that.