# Walmart Category API (Async)

The `Walmart Category API` endpoint returns a list of products for a specified product category.

**Single Category Request**

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="cURL" %}

```bash
curl -X POST \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	-d '{
			"apiKey": "API_KEY",
			"category": "CATEGORY",
			"country_code": "COUNTRY_CODE",
			"tld": "TLD",
			"page": "PAGE",
			"callback": {
				"type": "webhook",
				"url": "YYYYY"
			}
		}' \
"https://async.scraperapi.com/structured/walmart/category"
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Python" %}

```python
import requests

url = "https://async.scraperapi.com/structured/walmart/category"
headers = {
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}
data = {
    "apiKey": "API_KEY",
    "query": "QUERY",
    "country_code": "COUNTRY_CODE",
    "tld": "TLD",
    "page": "PAGE",
    "callback": {
        "type": "webhook",
        "url": "YYYYY"
    }
}

response = requests.post(url, json=data, headers=headers)
print(response.text)
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="NodeJS" %}

```javascript
import fetch from 'node-fetch';

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  body: JSON.stringify({
    apiKey: 'API_KEY',
    category: 'CATEGORY',
    country_code: 'COUNTRY_CODE',
    tld: 'TLD',
    callback: {
            type: 'webhook',
            url: 'YYYYY' }}),
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
}

fetch('https://async.scraperapi.com/structured/walmart/category', options)
  .then(response => {
    response.text().then(text => console.log(text));
  })
  .catch(error => {
    console.log(error)
  })
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="PHP" %}

```php
<?php
$curl = curl_init();
$data = json_encode(array(
    'apiKey' => 'API_KEY',
    'category' => 'CATEGORY',
    'country_code' => 'COUNTRY_CODE',
    'tld' => 'TLD',
    'page' => 'PAGE',
    'callback' => array(
        'type' => 'webhook',
        'url' => 'YYYYY'
    )
));
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => 'https://async.scraperapi.com/structured/walmart/category',
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST',
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $data,
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    'Content-Type: application/json'
  ),
));
$response = curl_exec($curl);
if (curl_errno($curl)) {
    echo 'Error:' . curl_error($curl);
} else {
    echo $response;
}
curl_close($curl);
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Ruby" %}

```ruby
require 'net/http'
require 'json'
require 'uri'

uri = URI('https://async.scraperapi.com/structured/walmart/category')
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri, 'Content-Type' => 'application/json')
request.body = {
  apiKey: 'API_KEY',
  category: 'CATEGORY',
  country_code: 'COUNTRY_CODE',
  tld: 'TLD',
  page: 'PAGE',
  callback: {
    type: 'webhook',
    url: 'YYYYY'
  }
}.to_json
begin
  response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true) do |http|
    http.request(request)
  end
  puts response.body
rescue => e
  puts "Error: #{e.message}"
end
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Java" %}

```java
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            String apiKey = "API_KEY";
            String jsonInputString = "{"
                + "\"apiKey\": \"" + apiKey + "\", "
                + "\"category\": \"CATEGORY\", "
                + "\"country_code\": \"COUNTRY_CODE\", "
                + "\"tld\": \"TLD\", "
                + "\"page\": \"PAGE\", "
                + "\"callback\": {"
                + "    \"type\": \"webhook\", "
                + "    \"url\": \"YYYYY\""
                + "}}";

            URL url = new URL("https://async.scraperapi.com/structured/walmart/category");
            HttpsURLConnection connection = (HttpsURLConnection) url.openConnection();
            connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
            connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
            connection.setRequestProperty("Accept", "*/*");
            connection.setDoOutput(true);
            try (OutputStream os = connection.getOutputStream()) {
                byte[] input = jsonInputString.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
                os.write(input, 0, input.length);
            }
            int responseCode = connection.getResponseCode();
            StringBuilder response = new StringBuilder();
            BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
            String readLine;
            while ((readLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
                response.append(readLine);
            }
            in.close();
            if (responseCode == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
                System.out.println("Response: " + response.toString());
            } else {
                throw new Exception("Error in API Call: Response code " + responseCode + "\nbody: " + response.toString());
            }
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

**Multiple Categories Request**

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="cURL" %}

```bash
curl -X POST \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	-d '{
			"apiKey": "API_KEY",
			"categories": ["CATEGORY1", "CATEGORY2"],
			"country_code": "COUNTRY_CODE",
			"tld": "TLD",
			"page": "PAGE",
			"callback": {
				"type": "webhook",
				"url": "YYYYY"
			}
		}' \
"https://async.scraperapi.com/structured/walmart/category"
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Python" %}

```python
import requests

url = "https://async.scraperapi.com/structured/walmart/category"
headers = {
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}
data = {
    "apiKey": "API_KEY",
    "categories": ["CATEGORY1", "CATEGORY2"],
    "country_code": "COUNTRY_CODE",
    "tld": "TLD",
    "page": "PAGE",
    "callback": {
        "type": "webhook",
        "url": "YYYYY"
    }
}

response = requests.post(url, json=data, headers=headers)
print(response.text)
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="NodeJS" %}

```javascript
import fetch from 'node-fetch';

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  body: JSON.stringify({
    apiKey: 'API_KEY',
    categories: ['CATEGORY1', 'CATEGORY2'],
    country_code: 'COUNTRY_CODE',
    tld: 'TLD',
    callback: {
            type: 'webhook',
            url: 'YYYYY' }}),
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
}

fetch('https://async.scraperapi.com/structured/walmart/category', options)
  .then(response => {
    response.text().then(text => console.log(text));
  })
  .catch(error => {
    console.log(error)
  })
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="PHP" %}

```php
<?php
$curl = curl_init();
$data = json_encode(array(
    'apiKey' => 'API_KEY',
    'categories' => ['CATEGORY1', 'CATEGORY2'],
    'country_code' => 'COUNTRY_CODE',
    'tld' => 'TLD',
    'page' => 'PAGE',
    'callback' => array(
        'type' => 'webhook',
        'url' => 'YYYYY'
    )
));
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => 'https://async.scraperapi.com/structured/walmart/category',
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST',
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $data,
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    'Content-Type: application/json'
  ),
));
$response = curl_exec($curl);
if (curl_errno($curl)) {
    echo 'Error:' . curl_error($curl);
} else {
    echo $response;
}
curl_close($curl);
?>
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Ruby" %}

```ruby
require 'net/http'
require 'json'
require 'uri'

uri = URI('https://async.scraperapi.com/structured/walmart/category')
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri, 'Content-Type' => 'application/json')
request.body = {
  apiKey: 'API_KEY',
  categories: ['CATEGORY1', 'CATEGORY2'],
  country_code: 'COUNTRY_CODE',
  tld: 'TLD',
  page: 'PAGE',
  callback: {
    type: 'webhook',
    url: 'YYYYY'
  }
}.to_json
begin
  response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true) do |http|
    http.request(request)
  end
  puts response.body
rescue => e
  puts "Error: #{e.message}"
end
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Java" %}

```java
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            String apiKey = "API_KEY";
            String jsonInputString = "{"
                + "\"apiKey\": \"" + apiKey + "\", "
                + "\"categories\": [\"CATEGORY1\", \"CATEGORY2\"], "
                + "\"country_code\": \"COUNTRY_CODE\", "
                + "\"tld\": \"TLD\", "
                + "\"page\": \"PAGE\", "
                + "\"callback\": {"
                + "    \"type\": \"webhook\", "
                + "    \"url\": \"YYYYY\""
                + "}}";

            URL url = new URL("https://async.scraperapi.com/structured/walmart/category");
            HttpsURLConnection connection = (HttpsURLConnection) url.openConnection();
            connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
            connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
            connection.setRequestProperty("Accept", "*/*");
            connection.setDoOutput(true);
            try (OutputStream os = connection.getOutputStream()) {
                byte[] input = jsonInputString.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
                os.write(input, 0, input.length);
            }
            int responseCode = connection.getResponseCode();
            StringBuilder response = new StringBuilder();
            BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
            String readLine;
            while ((readLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
                response.append(readLine);
            }
            in.close();
            if (responseCode == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
                System.out.println("Response: " + response.toString());
            } else {
                throw new Exception("Error in API Call: Response code " + responseCode + "\nbody: " + response.toString());
            }
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

**Supported Parameters**

<table><thead><tr><th width="397">Parameters</th><th>Details</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><code>API_KEY</code> (required)</td><td>User's normal API Key</td></tr><tr><td><code>CATEGORY</code> (required)</td><td><p>Walmart category ID as identifier. You can find the walmart category ID in the URL. Example: <code>3944_1089430_37807</code> </p><p><code>(/browse/3944_1089430_37807)</code></p></td></tr><tr><td><code>TLD</code></td><td>Top-level Walmart domain to scrape:<br><strong>com</strong> (walmart.com)<br><strong>ca</strong> (walmart.ca)</td></tr><tr><td><code>COUNTRY_CODE</code></td><td>Valid values are two letter country codes for which we offer Geo Targeting (e.g. “<strong>au</strong>”, “<strong>es</strong>”, “<strong>it</strong>”, etc.). You can find the full list here.</td></tr><tr><td><code>PAGE</code></td><td>Page number.</td></tr><tr><td><code>OUTPUT_FORMAT</code></td><td><p>For structured data methods we offer CSV and JSON output. JSON is default if parameter is not added. Options:</p><ul><li>csv</li><li>json (default)</li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Sample Response

Single Category Request

```json
{
  "id": "ce93d237-4595-4508-8d81-f94365fc542c",
  "status": "running",
  "statusUrl": "https://async.scraperapi.com/jobs/ce93d237-4595-4508-8d81-f94365fc542c",
  "category": "3944_1089430_37807",
}
```

Multiple Categories Request

```json
[
  {
    "id": "ec4a6153-368c-440e-8c02-6c302a661db9",
    "status": "running",
    "statusUrl": "https://async.scraperapi.com/jobs/ec4a6153-368c-440e-8c02-6c302a661db9",
    "category": "3920"
  },
  {
    "id": "8a024945-f74a-4327-80e3-12f26c737ec6",
    "status": "running",
    "statusUrl": "https://async.scraperapi.com/jobs/8a024945-f74a-4327-80e3-12f26c737ec6",
    "category": "3944_1089430_37807"
  }
]
```

After the job(s) finish, you will find the result under the <mark style="color:red;">response</mark> key in the response JSON object. The structure is the same as in the corresponding SYNC data endpoint.


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