/takealot/products/reviews

POST /api/takealot/products/reviews

Price: 1 credit

Get customer reviews for a Takealot product by PLID (or product URL): star rating, review text, author name, date, helpful-vote count, time-after-purchase note and the reviewed variant. Sort by most helpful or most recent, and optionally filter by a specific star rating.

How to use it

Fetch customer reviews for a single Takealot (South Africa) product by PLID, bare numeric id or a product URL. Each review has id, rating (1-5), text, author, date (YYYY-MM-DD), upvote_count, time_after_purchase, variant_info and tsin. Sort by most_helpful (default) or most_recent, and optionally filter to one star rating.

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"; minLength: 1)
• count integer required — Max number of reviews to return (min: 1)
• sort string — Review ordering (default: "SO_MOST_HELPFUL"; one of: "SO_MOST_HELPFUL", "SO_LATEST")
• rating integer nullable — Filter reviews by a specific star rating (1-5) (min: 1; max: 5)

Response

• @type string (default: "TakealotReview")
• id string required
• rating integer nullable
• text string nullable
• author string nullable
• date string nullable
• upvote_count integer nullable
• time_after_purchase string nullable
• variant_info array (default: [])
• tsin integer 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.