/jumia/categories

POST /api/jumia/categories

Price: 1 credit

Get the Jumia category tree: top-level categories with their sub-category groups and leaf categories, each with name, alias and url. Optionally return only one top-level category's subtree.

How to use it

Fetch the Jumia category navigation tree. Returns top-level categories, each with name, alias, url and nested children (sub-category groups and their leaf categories). Pass category (a top-level alias) to return only that subtree. The alias can be used as the category filter in the products search endpoint. Use the domain field for other Jumia country marketplaces.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• domain string — Jumia country marketplace domain. (default: "jumia.com.ng"; one of: "jumia.com.ng", "jumia.com.eg", "jumia.com.gh", "jumia.ci", "jumia.co.ke", "jumia.ma", "jumia.sn")
• category string nullable — Optional top-level category slug to return only its subtree (examples: "phones-tablets")

Response

• @type string (default: "JumiaCategory")
• name string required
• alias string nullable
• url string required
• children array (default: [])

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — Category tree unavailable (or the requested category slug does not exist) Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.