# Amazon Categories API Documentation

<p><strong>Amazon Categories API Documentation</strong> Read the category navigation of a category: its name, parent categories and child categories with node id and the category value to pass to the best sellers, new releases and category products endpoints.</p>

- **Documentation:** [https://scrappa.co/docs/amazon-api/amazon_categories](https://scrappa.co/docs/amazon-api/amazon_categories)
- **API group:** Amazon API
- **Endpoint:** `GET https://scrappa.co/api/amazon/categories`

## Authentication

Send your Scrappa API key in the `X-API-KEY` request header. Paid endpoints also support accountless x402 payments when called without an API key.

## Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `category` | string | No | Category slug, optionally with a node id. Default: electronics. |
| `domain` | string | No | Amazon marketplace. Supported here: US, DE, UK. Default: US. |

## Example response

```json
{
    "data": {
        "domain": "US",
        "current": "Electronics",
        "parents": [],
        "category": "electronics",
        "children": [
            {
                "name": "Accessories & Supplies",
                "node": "281407",
                "category": "electronics/281407"
            }
        ],
        "source_url": "https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/electronics"
    },
    "meta": {
        "cached": false,
        "domain": "US",
        "currency": "USD",
        "language": "en_US",
        "timestamp": "2026-10-31T22:00:00.000000Z",
        "response_time_ms": 4200
    },
    "success": true
}
```

## Errors

| Status | Error | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 404 | Not Found | The category does not exist. This response is not billable. |
| 503 | Service Unavailable | Amazon could not be reached after several tries. This response is not billable. Retry shortly. |

## More Scrappa resources

- [API documentation](https://scrappa.co/docs)
- [Full LLM-readable API reference](https://scrappa.co/llms-full.txt)
- [OpenAPI specification](https://scrappa.co/docs/api.json)
- [Pricing](https://scrappa.co/pricing)