Fanatics categories API

Endpoint facts

Method

GET

API path

/fanatics/categories

Auth

apiKey

Credits

1 credit/request

Platform

Fanatics

Response schema

#/definitions/fanatics.categoriesResponseDoc

Overview

Returns Fanatics' full top-level navigation tree: leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, Soccer, WWE, College, ...) and, where Fanatics exposes a team-level breakdown, each league's teams (College's several hundred schools included). Each league's or team's url is directly usable as fanatics_category's url input. Public data sourced from fanatics.com's own navigation data. 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

1 credit/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

- Each league's or team's `url` is directly usable as [`GET /fanatics/category`](fanatics-category.md)'s `url` parameter. - `teams` is populated for NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, Soccer, WWE, and College. Leagues without a team-level breakdown (currently WNBA, NASCAR, F1) still have a usable top-level `url`, just no `teams` array. - College's team list (several hundred NCAA schools) is sourced differently from the other leagues — Fanatics' own navigation data doesn't carry it, so it's discovered from fanatics.com's own sitemap instead and cached for 24 hours server-side. If that lookup is temporarily unavailable, College still returns with its top-level `url` and an empty `teams` array rather than failing the whole request. - Non-league top-level sections Fanatics' own navigation exposes the same way (e.g. "Collectibles", "Jerseys", "Sale") are included too, with the same `name`/`url` shape. - Aside from College's sitemap-backed teams, this list changes rarely; results are fetched live on every call, not cached client-side. Example response: ```json { "code": 200, "msg": "OK", "data": { "source_url": "https://www.fanatics.com/content/nav/v1789467884/510005/en-US.json", "fetched_at": "2026-09-16T04:00:00Z", "leagues": [ { "name": "NFL", "url": "/nfl/o-3572+z-953036859-1253393850", "teams": [ { "name": "Indianapolis Colts", "url": "/nfl/indianapolis-colts/o-2483+t-03378189+z-90650-4056854214", "product_count": 6138 } ] }, { "name": "College", "url": "/college/o-27+z-9314487535-1329600116", "teams": [ { "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide", "url": "/college/alabama-crimson-tide/o-38+t-12809913+z-977646-2884991572" } ] } ] } } ```

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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