Recommendations

This section describes the available recommender systems. For a detailed description of filters, please refer to RSQL.

When choosing the Hybrid Recommender Engine, every entity included in the list of recommendations comes with a percent match score. This score, a number between 0 and 100, indicates the degree of affinity between the recommended entity and the recipient.

Items to a User

Recommend top-N items that are most likely to be of great value to a given user, based on said user’s past interactions with the items.

URL
GET /{tableId}/users/{userId}/items

Parameters

URL parameters:

Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
tableId	✓	String	ID of the table
userId	✓	String	ID of the user
filter		String	Boolean-returning RSQL expression, which allows you to filter the items to be listed. Only the items for which the expression is true will be returned.
limit		String	Max. number of rows to be returned
afterId		String	ID of the last element of the current page, so the elements to be returned will start with the next ID. Useful for implementing pagination.
sort		String	RSQL expression used to sort the result list

Response

Code	Name
200	OK
400	Bad Request
401	Unauthorized
404	Not Found
429	Too Many Requests
500	Internal Server Error
503	Service Unavailable

JSON with the recommended items.

Example
Recommend three products to user01.

curl -X GET "https://recom.sherpa.ai/v2/recomm/products/users/user01/items?limit=3" \
-H  "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H  "X-Sherpa-apikey: XXXX-SHERPA-DELIVERED-PUBLIC-APIKEY-XXXX" \
-H  "X-Sherpa-timestamp: 1548084514112" \
-H  "X-Sherpa-nonce: XXXX-SHERPA-RANDOM-UUID-XXXX" \
-H  "X-Sherpa-hmac: xxxxyyyyyyy***signature******"

[
    {
    	"itemId": "item03",
    	"match": 95.32
    },
    {
    	"itemId": "item01",
    	"match": 91.23
    },
    {
    	"itemId": "item04",
    	"match": 88.07
    }
]

Users to a User

Get users that are similar to a given user, based on the user’s interactions and values of attributes.

URL
GET /{tableId}/users/{userId}/users

Parameters

URL parameters:

Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
tableId	✓	String	ID of the table
userId	✓	String	ID of the user
filter		String	Boolean-returning RSQL expression, which allows you to filter the users to be listed. Only the users for which the expression is true will be returned.
limit		String	Max. number of rows to be returned
afterId		String	ID of the last element of the current page, so the elements to be returned will start with the next ID. Useful for implementing pagination.
sort		String	RSQL expression used to sort the result list

Response

Code	Name
200	OK
400	Bad Request
401	Unauthorized
404	Not Found
429	Too Many Requests
500	Internal Server Error
503	Service Unavailable

JSON with the recommended users.

Example
Recommend two similar users to user01.

curl -X GET "https://recom.sherpa.ai/v2/recomm/products/users/user01/users?limit=2" \
-H  "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H  "X-Sherpa-apikey: XXXX-SHERPA-DELIVERED-PUBLIC-APIKEY-XXXX" \
-H  "X-Sherpa-timestamp: 1548084514112" \
-H  "X-Sherpa-nonce: XXXX-SHERPA-RANDOM-UUID-XXXX" \
-H  "X-Sherpa-hmac: xxxxyyyyyyy***signature******"

[
    {
    	"userId": "user04",
    	"match": 94.75
    },
    {
    	"userId": "user02",
    	"match": 93.81
    }
]

Items to an Item

Recommend a set of items that are somehow related to one given item. A typical scenario is when a user is viewing an item. Then, you may display other items to the user that they might be also interested in. The recommendation request gives you the Top-N of such items.

URL
GET /{tableId}/items/{itemId}/items

Parameters

URL parameters:

Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
tableId	✓	String	ID of the table
itemId	✓	String	ID of the item
filter		String	Boolean-returning RSQL expression, which allows you to filter the items to be listed. Only the items for which the expression is true will be returned.
limit		String	Max. number of rows to be returned
afterId		String	ID of the last element of the current page, so the elements to be returned will start with the next ID. Useful for implementing pagination.
sort		String	RSQL expression used to sort the result list

Response

Code	Name
200	OK
400	Bad Request
401	Unauthorized
404	Not Found
429	Too Many Requests
500	Internal Server Error
503	Service Unavailable

JSON with the recommended items.

Example
Recommend three products related to item01.

curl -X GET "https://recom.sherpa.ai/v2/recomm/products/items/item01/items?limit=3" \
-H  "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H  "X-Sherpa-apikey: XXXX-SHERPA-DELIVERED-PUBLIC-APIKEY-XXXX" \
-H  "X-Sherpa-timestamp: 1548084514112" \
-H  "X-Sherpa-nonce: XXXX-SHERPA-RANDOM-UUID-XXXX" \
-H  "X-Sherpa-hmac: xxxxyyyyyyy***signature******"

[
    {
    	"itemId": "item05",
    	"match": 96.48
    },
    {
    	"itemId": "item04",
    	"match": 94.48
    },
    {
    	"itemId": "item02",
    	"match": 91.55
    }
]

Users to an Item

Recommend users that are likely to be interested in a given item.

URL
GET /{tableId}/items/{itemId}/users

Parameters

URL parameters:

Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
tableId	✓	String	ID of the table
itemId	✓	String	ID of the item
filter		String	Boolean-returning RSQL expression, which allows you to filter the users to be listed. Only the users for which the expression is true will be returned.
limit		String	Max. number of rows to be returned
afterId		String	ID of the last element of the current page, so the elements to be returned will start with the next ID. Useful for implementing pagination.
sort		String	RSQL expression used to sort the result list

Response

Code	Name
200	OK
400	Bad Request
401	Unauthorized
404	Not Found
429	Too Many Requests
500	Internal Server Error
503	Service Unavailable

JSON with the recommended users.

Example
Recommend two users that may be interested in the product item01.

curl -X GET "https://recom.sherpa.ai/v2/recomm/products/items/item01/users?limit=2" \
-H  "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H  "X-Sherpa-apikey: XXXX-SHERPA-DELIVERED-PUBLIC-APIKEY-XXXX" \
-H  "X-Sherpa-timestamp: 1548084514112" \
-H  "X-Sherpa-nonce: XXXX-SHERPA-RANDOM-UUID-XXXX" \
-H  "X-Sherpa-hmac: xxxxyyyyyyy***signature******"

[
    {
    	"userId": "user03",
    	"match": 94.35
    },
    {
    	"userId": "user01",
    	"match": 90.46
    }
]