/takealot/products

POST /api/takealot/products

Price: 1 credit

Get full Takealot product details by PLID (or product URL): title, brand, price and list price (ZAR), saving, stock and marketplace flags, rating with 1-5 star distribution, category breadcrumbs, gallery images, description, specifications, bullet points, loyalty prices, financing (credit option), colour/size variants, the marketplace seller (name, rating, review count) when the item is sold by a third party, and competing other offers (New/Used conditions with their own price, stock and seller).

How to use it

Fetch a single Takealot (South Africa) product by PLID, bare numeric id or a product URL. Returns one item with id/plid, product_title, alias (URL slug), subtitle, brand, url, price/list_price (ZAR), currency, saving, is_in_stock, is_marketplace, is_preorder, is_free_shipping, sku, tsin, rating, review_count, rating_distribution (one_star_count..five_star_count), breadcrumbs (department/category hierarchy), images, description, specifications (name/value), bullet_points, loyalty_prices (Ebucks/Discovery Miles), credit_option (takealot.credit instalment: monthly_price/months/cashback), variants (colour/size options), seller (marketplace third-party seller, when present) and other_offers (competing New/Used offers, each with condition, from_price, product_id, price, stock, is_takealot and seller).

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• product string required — Takealot product id (PLID) or a product URL containing it (examples: "PLID95323237", "95323237", "https://www.takealot.com/apple-iphone-11-64gb/PLID95323237"; minLength: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "TakealotProduct")
• id integer required
• plid string required
• product_title string required
• alias string nullable
• subtitle string nullable
• brand string nullable
• url string nullable
• price number nullable
• list_price number nullable
• currency string (default: "ZAR")
• saving string nullable
• is_in_stock boolean nullable
• is_marketplace boolean nullable
• is_preorder boolean nullable
• is_free_shipping boolean nullable
• sku integer nullable
• tsin integer nullable
• rating number nullable
• review_count integer nullable
• rating_distribution object nullable
  • @type string (default: "TakealotRatingDistribution")
  • one_star_count integer (default: 0)
  • two_star_count integer (default: 0)
  • three_star_count integer (default: 0)
  • four_star_count integer (default: 0)
  • five_star_count integer (default: 0)
• breadcrumbs array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "TakealotBreadcrumb")
  • id integer required
  • name string required
  • alias string nullable
  • crumb_type string nullable
• images array (default: [])
• description string nullable
• specifications array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "TakealotSpecification")
  • name string required
  • value string nullable
• bullet_points array (default: [])
• loyalty_prices array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "TakealotLoyaltyPrice")
  • name string required
  • value number nullable
• credit_option object nullable
  • @type string (default: "TakealotCreditOption")
  • provider string nullable
  • monthly_price number nullable
  • months integer nullable
  • cashback string nullable
  • more_cashback string nullable
• variants array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "TakealotVariant")
  • name string required
  • value string nullable
  • selector_type string nullable
  • is_selected boolean (default: false)
  • is_enabled boolean (default: true)
  • image string nullable
• seller object nullable
  • @type string (default: "TakealotSeller")
  • id integer required
  • name string nullable
  • alias string nullable
  • rating number nullable
  • review_count integer nullable
  • is_vat_registered boolean nullable
• other_offers array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "TakealotOtherOffer")
  • condition string nullable
  • from_price number nullable
  • offer_count integer nullable
  • product_id integer nullable
  • price number nullable
  • is_in_stock boolean nullable
  • stock_status string nullable
  • is_takealot boolean nullable
  • seller object nullable
    • @type string (default: "TakealotSeller")
    • id integer required
    • name string nullable
    • alias string nullable
    • rating number nullable
    • review_count integer nullable
    • is_vat_registered boolean nullable

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 — Product not found (well-formed but nonexistent PLID) 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.