Get offer

Action ID
actions.intent.GET_OFFER
Description
Search and view deals on goods or services. Search deals by item description and category using the offer.itemOffered.description and offer.category intent parameters. Additionally filter deals by validity using the offer.validThrough intent parameter, if available.

Locale support

Functionality Locales
Preview creation using App Actions test tool en-US, pt-BR
User invocation from Google Assistant en-US, pt-BR

Example queries

The following fields represent essential information that users often provide in queries that trigger this built-in intent:

offer.itemOffered.description
offer.category

Other supported fields

The following fields represent information that users often provide to disambiguate their needs or otherwise improve their results:

offer.@type
offer.itemOffered.@type
offer.validThrough

Supported text values by field



Inventory availability by field



Sample XML files

For information about the shortcuts.xml schema, see Create shortcuts.xml.

Handle BII parameters

shortcuts.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- This is a sample shortcuts.xml -->
<shortcuts xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
  <capability android:name="actions.intent.GET_OFFER">
    <intent
      android:action="android.intent.action.VIEW"
      android:targetPackage="YOUR_UNIQUE_APPLICATION_ID"
      android:targetClass="YOUR_TARGET_CLASS">
      <!-- Eg. category = "coupon" -->
      <parameter
        android:name="offer.category"
        android:key="category"/>
      <!-- Eg. validThrough = "2018-06-17T15:00Z" -->
      <parameter
        android:name="offer.validThrough"
        android:key="validThrough"/>
      <!-- Eg. description = "example description" -->
      <parameter
        android:name="offer.itemOffered.description"
        android:key="description"/>
    </intent>
  </capability>
</shortcuts>
      

actions.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- This is a sample actions.xml -->
<actions>
  <action intentName="actions.intent.GET_OFFER">
    <fulfillment urlTemplate="myapp://custom-deeplink{?category,validThrough,description}">
      <!-- e.g. category = "coupon" -->
      <!-- (Optional) Require a field eg.category for fulfillment with required="true" -->
      <parameter-mapping urlParameter="category" intentParameter="offer.category" required="true" />
      <!-- e.g. validThrough = "2018-06-17T15:00Z" -->
      <parameter-mapping urlParameter="validThrough" intentParameter="offer.validThrough" />
      <!-- e.g. description = "example description" -->
      <parameter-mapping urlParameter="description" intentParameter="offer.itemOffered.description" />
    </fulfillment>

    <!-- Provide a fallback fulfillment with no required parameters. For example, to your app search or router deeplink -->
    <fulfillment urlTemplate="myapp://deeplink" />
  </action>
</actions>

Use web inventory

offer.category is a field that supports web inventory. In the following example, Google Assistant performs a web search for the user query and determines the fulfillment URL. Assistant filters for search results that match the provided urlFilter value of https://www.mywebsite.com/link1/.*.

shortcuts.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- This is a sample shortcuts.xml -->
<shortcuts xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
  <capability android:name="actions.intent.GET_OFFER">
    <intent
      android:action="android.intent.action.VIEW"
      android:targetPackage="YOUR_UNIQUE_APPLICATION_ID"
      android:targetClass="YOUR_TARGET_CLASS">
      <parameter android:name="offer.category">
        <data android:pathPattern="https://www.mywebsite.com/link1/.*"/>
      </parameter>
      <parameter android:name="offer.validThrough">
        <data android:pathPattern="https://www.mywebsite.com/link2/.*"/>
      </parameter>
      <parameter android:name="offer.itemOffered.description">
        <data android:pathPattern="https://www.mywebsite.com/link3/.*"/>
      </parameter>
    </intent>
  </capability>
</shortcuts>
      

actions.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- This is a sample actions.xml -->
<actions>
  <action intentName="actions.intent.GET_OFFER">
    <!-- Use URL from entity match for deep link fulfillment -->
    <!-- Example: url = 'https://www.mywebsite.com/link1/item1' -->
    <fulfillment urlTemplate="{@url}" />

    <!-- Provide a fallback fulfillment with no required parameters. For example, to your app search or router deeplink -->
    <fulfillment urlTemplate="myapp://deeplink" />

    <!-- Define parameters with web inventories using urlFilter -->
    <parameter name="offer.category">
      <entity-set-reference urlFilter="https://www.mywebsite.com/link1/.*" />"/>
    </parameter>
  </action>
</actions>

JSON-LD sample

The following JSON-LD sample provides some example values that you can use in the App Actions test tool:

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Offer",
  "category": "coupon",
  "itemOffered": {
    "@type": "Product",
    "description": "example description"
  },
  "validThrough": "2018-06-17T15:00Z"
}
"http://schema.googleapis.com/ServiceTypeUtility"