7NOW API endpoint
Use Crawlora's 7NOW Categories API to extract supported public 7NOW data as structured JSON. This page includes request parameters, cURL examples, response schema, error behavior, credit cost, and a Playground link for testing before integration.
/7now/categoriesEnumerates every value GET /7now/category accepts for a store, so callers do not have to pull the full catalog to discover them. 7NOW has two disjoint id spaces behind that one parameter: `departments` are the store's 10 permanent browsable departments (Fresh Food, Drinks, Snacks, Candy, Ice Cream, Beer & Seltzer, Tobacco, Grocery, Household, Personal Care), and `shelves` are the merchandising rows the homepage currently features ("$2 Deals", "What's New", "Only At 7-Eleven", seasonal ones). Both work as category_id. Shelves rotate with promotions and seasons, so re-read them rather than caching ids long-term. store_id comes from GET /7now/stores; lat and lon are accepted but inert (store_id alone selects the store). Developers commonly use this endpoint for data enrichment, monitoring, research dashboards, internal automation, and agent-native workflows that need repeatable structured public web data. Authentication uses the documented Crawlora headers, and usage is metered with the credit cost shown on this page.
Request parameters are generated from the active endpoint catalog. Required values must be sent before Crawlora can call the upstream public web data source.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| store_id | string | Yes | 7NOW store id, from GET /7now/stores. | ||
| lat | number | No | Accepted but inert -- store_id alone selects the store; responses are byte-identical with any value or none. Forwarded upstream for fidelity with 7now.com's own client. | ||
| lon | number | No | Accepted but inert -- see lat. | ||
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/7now/categories" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Send your scraping API key in the x-api-key header. Use the console API Keys page to rotate or select the active key.
Endpoint usage is metered in credits. The plan prices, included credits, limits, and overage rates below match the active backend billing configuration.
| Plan | Price | Included credits | Daily cap | Rate limit | Overage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 2,000 | 500 daily credits | 5/min | No overage |
| Starter | $9/mo | 20,000 | 5,000 daily credits | 15/min | $0.75/1,000 overage credits when enabled |
| Growth | $29/mo | 100,000 | 25,000 daily credits | 45/min | $0.45/1,000 overage credits when enabled |
| Pro | $79/mo | 400,000 | No daily cap | 120/min | $0.30/1,000 overage credits |
| Business | $199/mo | 1,200,000 | No daily cap | 300/min | $0.20/1,000 overage credits |
| Enterprise | $499/mo | 5,000,000 | No daily cap | 1,000/min | $0.12/1,000 overage credits |
This endpoint is executed through Crawlora's managed scraping infrastructure.
Crawlora does not silently return bad data when the upstream page cannot be used.
| Status | Common failure case |
|---|---|
| 400 | Invalid input or missing required parameter |
| 429 | Plan or endpoint rate limit exceeded |
| 500 | Internal execution error |
| 502 | Upstream platform failed, returned unusable HTML, or served a challenge page that could not be resolved |
When possible, Crawlora returns structured error context so your integration can retry, back off, or inspect the request.
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Bad Request | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 429 | Too Many Requests | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 503 | Service Unavailable | #/definitions/app.Response |
{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"store_id": "39640",
"departments": [
{
"id": "48423",
"name": "Fresh Food",
"kind": "department"
},
{
"id": "48395",
"name": "Drinks",
"kind": "department"
},
{
"id": "48397",
"name": "Snacks",
"kind": "department"
}
],
"shelves": [
{
"id": "78499",
"name": "$2 Deals",
"kind": "shelf",
"item_count": 25,
"display_order": 13
},
{
"id": "48493",
"name": "What's New",
"kind": "shelf",
"item_count": 31,
"display_order": 18
}
],
"count": 25,
"source_url": "https://www.7now.com/api/bff/unified-catalog/v1/content/homepage?...",
"fetched_at": "2026-09-05T22:10:00Z"
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/sevennow.categoriesResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| code | integer | No | Code is the HTTP status code or a custom code used to indicate the result of the request @example 200 | |||
| data | sevennow.CategoriesResponse | No | ||||
| data.count | integer | No | 25 | |||
| data.departments | array | No | Departments are the store's permanent browsable departments. | |||
| data.departments[].display_order | integer | No | 18 | DisplayOrder is the shelf's position on the store homepage. Only meaningful for shelves. | ||
| data.departments[].id | string | No | 48395 | |||
| data.departments[].item_count | integer | No | 25 | ItemCount is how many items the shelf holds upstream. Only populated for shelves -- departments do not report a count here (use GET /7now/category's stats.total for those). | ||
| data.departments[].kind | string | No | department | Kind is `department` for the store's permanent browsable departments (Drinks, Snacks, Fresh Food, ...) or `shelf` for a merchandising row the homepage is currently featuring ("$2 Deals", "What's New"). Both are valid category_id values; shelves rotate, departments do not. | ||
| data.departments[].name | string | No | Drinks | |||
| data.fetched_at | string | No | ||||
| data.shelves | array | No | Shelves are the merchandising rows the homepage currently features. These rotate with promotions and seasons, so re-read them rather than caching ids long-term. | |||
| data.shelves[].display_order | integer | No | 18 | DisplayOrder is the shelf's position on the store homepage. Only meaningful for shelves. | ||
| data.shelves[].id | string | No | 48395 | |||
| data.shelves[].item_count | integer | No | 25 | ItemCount is how many items the shelf holds upstream. Only populated for shelves -- departments do not report a count here (use GET /7now/category's stats.total for those). | ||
| data.shelves[].kind | string | No | department | Kind is `department` for the store's permanent browsable departments (Drinks, Snacks, Fresh Food, ...) or `shelf` for a merchandising row the homepage is currently featuring ("$2 Deals", "What's New"). Both are valid category_id values; shelves rotate, departments do not. | ||
| data.shelves[].name | string | No | Drinks | |||
| data.source_url | string | No | ||||
| data.store_id | string | No | 39640 | |||
| msg | unknown | No | Msg is the message that describes the result of the request @example "Request successful" |
Use environment variables for secrets and keep Crawlora API keys server-side.
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/7now/categories" \
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