POST/v1/amazon/products-by-category

Amazon Products by Category API

Browse Amazon products under any category browse-node ID. 48 products/page from $0.01/call.

List Amazon products under any browse-node category ID. Returns up to 48 products per page with price, rating, image, and Prime status. Supports sort, condition, and deal filters.

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POST/v1/amazon/products-by-categoryamazon-products-by-category$0.01/call

Response

Example response — hit "Send Request" to see a live result

{
  "ok": true,
  "data": {
    "status": "OK",
    "data": {
      "total_products": 975521,
      "country": "US",
      "domain": "www.amazon.com",
      "products": [
        {
          "asin": "168281808X",
          "product_title": "Untitled Empyrean (Not Book Four)",
          "product_price": "$17.49",
          "product_original_price": "$24.99",
          "book_format": "Hardcover",
          "product_num_offers": 1
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Features

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48 products per page

Each /v1/amazon/products-by-category call returns up to 48 products under the given browse-node ID, with deeper listings reachable via the page parameter.

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Filter by sort, condition, Prime, deals

Apply sort order, condition (new/used/renewed), Prime-only, and deal filters to the category feed so your grids show exactly the slice you want.

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Book-format field for Books categories

When browsing Books browse nodes, each product includes book_format (e.g. Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle) so you can present the right edition.

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Total product count per category

Returns total_products (e.g. 975,521) for the browse node, giving you the size of the category for pagination math and market sizing.

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Pagination via page parameter

Walk an entire browse node 48 products at a time using the page parameter, letting you ingest a full category in predictable, paged calls.

Use cases

Category Pages

Build category-level product grids with live Amazon inventory.

Niche Research

Identify bestselling SKUs in any long-tail browse node.

Import Feeds

Seed your marketplace with Amazon's own category taxonomy.

Quick start

Copy this snippet and start making calls.

const res = await fetch('https://api.yepapi.com/v1/amazon/products-by-category', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "category_id": "2478868012",
    "country": "US"
  }),
});
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

The Amazon Products by Category API for browse-node listings

The YepAPI Amazon Products by Category API lists products under any Amazon browse-node ID. Pass a numeric category_id like 2478868012 to /v1/amazon/products-by-category and get back up to 48 products per page — each with ASIN, title, price, original price, rating, image, and Prime status — plus a total_products count for the node, all at $0.01 per call.

This is browsing, not searching. Instead of a keyword, you give a category node and walk its catalog. That makes it the endpoint for category grids, niche research inside a long-tail browse node, and seeding your own store with Amazon's category taxonomy — with sort, condition, Prime, and deal filters layered on top.

What is an Amazon Products by Category API?

An Amazon Products by Category API returns the products that live under a specific Amazon browse-node (category) ID as structured data. Rather than starting from a keyword, you start from a category node and receive a paged list of its products — ASIN, title, price, original price, rating, image, offer count, and (for Books) book_format — along with the node's total product count. It exists because browsing a category is a fundamentally different access pattern from searching: you want everything in a defined slice of the catalog, paged predictably, not the best matches for a phrase.

Build your own category browser

Feed a browse-node ID into /v1/amazon/products-by-category and render a category grid of 48 live products, then paginate with the page parameter to walk the whole node. Pull the node IDs themselves from the Amazon Categories API, and deep-link any product into the Product Details API for full specs. It's a clean way to build niche-research dashboards or seed a marketplace with Amazon's own taxonomy — all on one YepAPI key.

Amazon Products by Category API pricing — $0.01 per call

Category listings cost $0.01 per call, with each call returning up to 48 products. Because the response includes total_products for the node, you can calculate exactly how many paged calls a full ingest will take and budget it precisely — a 975,000-product node at 48 per page is predictable to the cent. No quotas, no monthly minimums; Rainforest API and Keepa price per request or by subscription instead.

Browse-node research and catalog seeding

What makes this endpoint distinct is the browse-node entry point. Niche researchers use it to see every SKU competing in a long-tail node before launching a product; catalog teams use it to mirror Amazon's category structure into their own store. The book_format field tailors Books nodes, and the total_products count doubles as a market-sizing signal — how crowded is this category before you enter it.

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Get $5 in free credit, no card required — 500 category calls to test browse-node IDs, pagination, and filters on live data. Pair it with the Amazon Categories API on the same key to discover the node IDs you need.

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Frequently asked questions

List Amazon products under any browse-node category ID. Returns up to 48 products per page with price, rating, image, and Prime status. Supports sort, condition, and deal filters.

Each API call costs $0.01. No monthly minimums or subscriptions — you only pay for what you use.

Sign up for a free API key, then send a POST request to /v1/amazon/products-by-category. Check the code example above for a ready-to-use snippet in JavaScript, cURL, or Python.

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