List Amazon Departments & Categories
View all Amazon Product Data, Reviews & Deals endpoints →The department and category list for a marketplace, for use with the category_id parameter of Product Search. Pass a country to get that marketplace's category IDs and names; values differ per locale, so fetch the list for every marketplace you query and refresh it as Amazon renames departments.
API Features
Per-marketplace taxonomy Category IDs are locale-specific — fetch the tree for each country you query
Feeds Product Search Values plug straight into the category_id filter of the search endpoint
Lightweight reference call One request returns the whole department list for a marketplace
Keeps pickers current Refresh internal category pickers as Amazon renames departments
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GET
/api/project/amazon/product-category-list API Response (JSON)
{} curl -X GET 'https://api.opendata-api.com/api/project/amazon/product-category-list?key=<API_KEY>&country=US'
curl -X GET 'https://api.opendata-api.com/api/project/amazon/product-category-list?key=<API_KEY>&country=US'
Query Result
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Use Cases
- Syncing Amazon's category tree into an internal taxonomy for search filtering
- Building category pickers for seller tools that need valid category_id values
- Keeping multi-marketplace category mappings current per country
- Validating category slugs before scheduling search crawls