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Mercado Libre API

Latin America Marketplace Data: Category Products, Reviews, Shipping and Stores

Browse Mercado Libre and Mercado Livre as JSON across Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Uruguay, Ecuador and Venezuela. Pull the priced best sellers and offers of any category, related products, buyer reviews with a rating summary, shipping options by zip code, the category tree with attributes, search-box suggestions and the official store directory. No Mercado Libre account is needed.

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11
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9
Country sites
$0.20
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Use the first endpoint in this API family with a Scrappa API key. Every account includes 500 free monthly credits, so you can validate the response shape before buying credits.

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Request 
curl -X GET "https://scrappa.co/api/mercadolibre/category-products?site=MLA&category_id=MLA1574" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "X-API-KEY: YOUR_API_KEY"
JSON response 
{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "site": "MLA",
    "category_id": "MLA1574",
    "products": [
      {
        "position": 1,
        "item_id": "MLA3965765480",
        "title": "Kit Cubre Edredón Dubai Queen 2 Plazas 260x240",
        "price": 31990,
        "previous_price": 52999,
        "currency": "ARS",
        "discount_label": "39% OFF",
        "shipping_text": "Envío gratis"
      }
    ],
    "total": 34
  },
  "meta": { "endpoint_family": "category_products", "billable": true }
}

What you can build

Structured data for real applications. Here are some ideas.

Price Monitoring

Track prices, previous prices and discounts of the best sellers and offers in any category, per country, over time.

Review Analysis

Collect buyer reviews with ratings, dates, variants and photos, and read the star distribution of an item or product.

Delivery Cost Comparison

Compare shipping cost and delivery dates for an item to any zip code in Argentina, Brazil and the other sites.

Marketplace Research

Map the category tree with item counts, list the official stores of a country and see what buyers type into the search box.

Available endpoints

Everything you need in one API.

Scrappa vs Mercado Libre (restricted official API)

See how Scrappa compares to the official API.

Public data without OAuth
Scrappa: Yes (11 endpoints)
Mercado Libre (restricted official API): Account and app approval needed
Category products
Scrappa: Structured JSON
Mercado Libre (restricted official API): Not available
Reviews
Scrappa: Structured JSON
Mercado Libre (restricted official API): Limited
Bulk access
Scrappa:
Mercado Libre (restricted official API):
Free tier
Scrappa: 500 credits/month
Mercado Libre (restricted official API): N/A
Integration ready
Scrappa: REST API
Mercado Libre (restricted official API):

Key features

Priced best sellers and offers for every category of 9 country sites
Reviews with rating, text, variant, photos and helpful count
Rating average and star distribution for items and catalogue products
Shipping cost and delivery date by zip code
Category tree with item counts, attributes and allowed values
Official store directory with live totals
No login and no browser: read-only public marketplace data
Structured JSON response format

Frequently asked questions

Not yet. The API reads categories: best sellers and offers per category, related products, reviews, shipping, stores and suggestions. Use category discovery to turn a product text into a category id.

Argentina (MLA), Brazil (MLB, Mercado Livre), Mexico (MLM), Chile (MLC), Colombia (MCO), Peru (MPE), Uruguay (MLU), Ecuador (MEC) and Venezuela (MLV). Pass the site id with every request.

Just a Scrappa API key passed as an X-API-KEY header. No Mercado Libre account is needed. Sign up for free, get your key, and start querying immediately.

Yes. Every Scrappa account gets 500 free credits per month with no credit card required. Test all Mercado Libre endpoints before committing to paid usage.

Scrappa charges $0.20 per 1,000 requests with no daily caps and never rate limits a client. All Mercado Libre endpoints cost the same. Failed requests are never billed.

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