Kohl's Category Browse API

Endpoint facts

Method

GET

API path

/kohls/category

Auth

apiKey

Credits

3 credits/request

Platform

Kohl's

Response schema

#/definitions/kohls.categoryResponseDoc

Overview

Returns a Kohl's category or curated campaign page's product grid (page 1 only), with normalized products (title, image, colors, pricing, rating, availability) and facets for discovering further category values. category is Kohl's own catalog taxonomy string, e.g. "Room:Dorm" or "Department:Kitchen & Dining" -- combine multiple dimensions with a literal "+", percent-encoded as "%2B" so it survives as "+" rather than being decoded to a space (e.g. "Room%3ADorm%2BDepartment%3ABedding"). Every facets[].options[].category value in a response is a ready-to-use category string for a follow-up call, so a caller can discover the full taxonomy by starting from a known category (e.g. "Room:Dorm") and following facets. A category value Kohl's does not recognize returns a 404 rather than an unfiltered listing; a recognized dimension with no matching products returns a genuine zero-result response instead. 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

3 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

- Pagination is page 1 only. `product_count` is the category's total result count across all pages; `total_pages` and `limit` describe the upstream page size, but this endpoint does not fetch page 2 or beyond. - Every `facets[].options[].category` value in a response is a ready-to-use `category` string for a follow-up call -- this is how a caller discovers the full taxonomy, starting from a known category (e.g. `Room:Dorm`) and following its facets (e.g. `Department`, `Brand`, `Price`). - A `category` value Kohl's does not recognize at all returns a `404` rather than an unfiltered listing. A recognized dimension with a value that matches nothing (e.g. a real department with a typo'd name) returns a genuine zero-result response (`count: 0`, empty `products`) instead of an error. - `sale_price` is present only when the product is genuinely on sale; `on_sale` is `false` and `sale_price` is omitted otherwise. - `regular_price`/`sale_price` are min/max ranges rather than single prices, because a product can span multiple sizes/colors at different price points. ```json {"code":200,"msg":"OK","data":{"category":"Room:Dorm","title":"Essential Dorm Items for College-Bound Students | Kohl's","product_count":1317,"count":1,"limit":120,"total_pages":11,"products":[{"web_id":"4569328","title":"The Big One® Solid Bath Towel, Bath Sheet, Hand Towel or Washcloth","image_url":"https://media.kohlsimg.com/is/image/kohls/4569328_Medium_Gray?wid=180&hei=180&op_sharpen=1","colors":["Medium Gray"],"currency_code":"USD","regular_price":{"min_price":2.99,"max_price":9.99},"sale_price":{"min_price":2.09,"max_price":8.99},"on_sale":true,"rating":3.9,"review_count":27103,"available_for_ship":true,"available_for_pickup":false,"url":"https://www.kohls.com/product/prd-4569328/the-big-one-solid-bath-towel-bath-sheet-hand-towel-or-washcloth.jsp"}],"facets":[{"name":"Department","label":"Department","options":[{"category":"Room:Dorm+Department:Bedding","name":"Bedding","product_count":479,"active":false}]}],"source_url":"https://www.kohls.com/shopnext-web-findability/api/web-shop/pmp-catalog?CN=Room:Dorm","fetched_at":"2026-08-12T04:00:00Z"}} ```

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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