List Old Navy storefront categories API

Endpoint facts

Method

GET

API path

/oldnavy/categories

Auth

apiKey

Credits

1 credit/request

Platform

Old Navy

Response schema

#/definitions/oldnavy.categoriesResponseDoc

Overview

Lists Old Navy's own storefront navigation as name/cid pairs, resolving the cid-discovery gap oldnavy-search, oldnavy-product, and oldnavy-category all document. Omit cid to list Old Navy's top-level divisions (e.g. Women, Men, Boys, Toddler). Pass a cid (a division's own, or any deeper category's) to list the related categories for that part of the storefront instead, in the same order the live storefront menu shows them -- this is section-level, not necessarily unique per leaf category. Currently only available for brand=on (Old Navy) -- Gap, Banana Republic, and Athleta render their storefront navigation as client-side-only JavaScript with no server-rendered category id to scrape. 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

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

- Omit `cid` to list Old Navy's top-level divisions (New & Trending!, Uniforms, Activewear, Women, Men, Girls, Boys, Toddler, Baby, Maternity, Today's Deals!), sourced from the storefront's own homepage top nav. - Pass a `cid` -- a division's own, or any deeper category's -- to list the related categories for that part of the storefront instead, in the same order the live storefront menu shows them. This is section-level, not necessarily unique per leaf: a narrow subcategory's `cid` (e.g. Boys T-Shirts) currently returns the same list as its parent division (Boys), since Old Navy serves this block once per section rather than once per category. Each returned entry's `cid` is usable directly as the `cid` query parameter to [`oldnavy-category`](oldnavy-category.md). - **Currently only available for `brand=on` (Old Navy).** Gap, Banana Republic, and Athleta render their storefront navigation as client-side-only JavaScript with no server-rendered category id to scrape -- passing any other `brand` value returns `400`. - A non-numeric `cid` returns `400` before any upstream request is made. - Old Navy does not return a distinct not-found signal for an unrecognized `cid` on this page (unlike `oldnavy-category`'s own commerce-API lookup, which does 404 cleanly) -- an unrecognized `cid` and a genuinely leaf-level category with no further children both look the same (`503`). If you need a hard not-found check for a specific `cid`, use `oldnavy-category` instead. Example response (`cid` omitted -- top-level divisions): ```json {"code":200,"msg":"OK","data":{"brand":"on","source_url":"https://oldnavy.gap.com/","fetched_at":"2026-08-10T00:00:00Z","categories":[{"name":"New & Trending!","cid":"3028309","url":"https://oldnavy.gap.com/browse/category.do?cid=3028309&mlink=5151,topNav,visnav&nav=meganav%3ANew%20%26%20Trending!%3A%3A"},{"name":"Women","cid":"1185233","url":"https://oldnavy.gap.com/browse/category.do?cid=1185233&mlink=5151,topNav,visnav&nav=meganav%3AWomen%3A%3A"},{"name":"Boys","cid":"1185232","url":"https://oldnavy.gap.com/browse/category.do?cid=1185232&mlink=5151,topNav,visnav&nav=meganav%3ABoys%3A%3A"}]}} ``` Example response (`cid=1185232`, Boys -- subcategories): ```json {"code":200,"msg":"OK","data":{"brand":"on","cid":"1185232","source_url":"https://oldnavy.gap.com/browse/category.do?cid=1185232","fetched_at":"2026-08-10T00:00:00Z","categories":[{"name":"T-Shirts","cid":"36097","url":"https://oldnavy.gap.com/browse/category.do?cid=36097&cl=true#department=16"},{"name":"Jeans","cid":"5936","url":"https://oldnavy.gap.com/browse/category.do?cid=5936&cl=true#department=16"},{"name":"Boys Shop by Size 5-20","cid":"39659","url":"https://oldnavy.gap.com/browse/category.do?cid=39659&cl=true#department=16"}]}} ```

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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