Chewy Search Suggestions API

Endpoint facts

Method

GET

API path

/chewy/suggest

Auth

apiKey

Credits

2 credits/request

Platform

Chewy

Response schema

#/definitions/chewy.suggestResponseDoc

Overview

Returns Chewy's own search-box typeahead result for a partial query term: search-term suggestions (some resolving directly to a category/brand browse URL via their own url field) plus a handful of educational-content article suggestions. term is a partial query, e.g. "salmon dog" or "blue buff". 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.

Authentication

Send your scraping API key in the x-api-key header. Use the console API Keys page to rotate or select the active key.

Billing

Endpoint usage is metered in credits. The plan prices, included credits, limits, and overage rates below match the active backend billing configuration.

Credit cost

2 credits/request

Charged response

Successful 2xx responses

Infrastructure behavior

This endpoint is executed through Crawlora's managed scraping infrastructure.

• Proxy strategy: managed automatically where needed
• Browser rendering: enabled for supported targets that require rendered HTML or JavaScript execution
• Browser cluster: supported dynamic workloads can be routed through distributed browser instances
• Retry behavior: automatic retry/fallback may be used depending on endpoint type
• Challenge handling: challenged pages or unusable upstream HTML are detected and surfaced clearly when they cannot be used
• Billing: credits are charged only for successful 2xx responses
• Observability: responses include request context where available

Response behavior

- `suggestions[].url` is present only when Chewy resolves that specific term suggestion directly to a category/brand browse page rather than leaving it as a plain keyword. - `redirect_url` is present only when the whole `term` itself resolves directly to a category/brand browse page (e.g. `puppy` resolving to its own shop page). - `articles` are Chewy's own `/education/...` guide suggestions shown alongside term suggestions; omitted when none are returned. - This endpoint has no distinct "no results" signal -- an unmatched or nonsense `term` still returns Chewy's own best-effort fuzzy/prefix suggestions rather than an empty list. Example response: ```json {"code":200,"msg":"OK","data":{"term":"salmon dog","suggestions":[{"term":"salmon dog food"},{"term":"salmon dog treats"},{"term":"salmon dog food dry"}],"articles":[{"title":"What Is the Best Dog Food for Small Dogs?","url":"https://www.chewy.com/education/dog/food-and-nutrition/what-is-the-best-dog-food-for-small-dogs","thumbnail_url":"https://pet-health-content-media.chewy.com/thumb.jpg"}],"source_url":"https://www.chewy.com/suggestion/v2/suggest?term=salmon+dog&types=standardCategory&types=brandCategory&types=noncategoryBrand&types=manual&count=10&newCustomer=true&isAuthenticated=false","fetched_at":"2026-08-20T10:00:00Z"}} ```

Error behavior

Crawlora does not silently return bad data when the upstream page cannot be used.

When possible, Crawlora returns structured error context so your integration can retry, back off, or inspect the request.

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