Kroger suggest API

Endpoint facts

Method

GET

API path

/kroger/suggest

Auth

apiKey

Credits

3 credits/request

Platform

Kroger

Response schema

#/definitions/kroger.suggestResponseDoc

Overview

Returns Kroger's own search-box suggestions for a (possibly empty) query, sourced directly from Kroger's public suggestions API rather than the rendered search page. An empty query returns Kroger's default "trending" shopping shortcuts instead of an error. location_id scopes results to one Kroger store and defaults to a confirmed-working store id when omitted. 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

Browser cluster behavior

Some targets require real browser execution because the data is loaded through JavaScript, dynamic rendering, or interaction-like browser behavior.

For supported endpoints, Crawlora can route requests through a managed browser cluster. This allows Crawlora to execute JavaScript, load dynamic content, apply browser-level request behavior, and normalize the rendered result into JSON.

You do not need to operate your own Playwright, Puppeteer, Chrome, proxy, queue, or retry infrastructure.

Response behavior

- Each item in `suggestions` has a `type` — `SUGGESTION` for a term suggestion, `TRENDING` for a default shopping shortcut shown when `query` is omitted — passed through from Kroger's own API rather than validated against a fixed list, so a future third type still surfaces. - `spelling_correction` is set only when `query` returned zero suggestions and Kroger judged it a likely typo (e.g. `Marble cake` → `maple cake`); it is omitted otherwise. - A genuinely empty `suggestions` list (with or without `spelling_correction`) is a normal, successful response — not an error. Example response: ```json { "code": 200, "msg": "OK", "data": { "query": "rin", "location_id": "03500917", "suggestions": [ {"type": "SUGGESTION", "value": "onion ring"}, {"type": "SUGGESTION", "value": "pork rind"}, {"type": "SUGGESTION", "value": "white castle chicken ring"}, {"type": "SUGGESTION", "value": "rinse aid"}, {"type": "SUGGESTION", "value": "frozen onion ring"} ] } } ```

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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