Old Navy Category Browse API

Endpoint facts

Method

GET

API path

/oldnavy/category

Auth

apiKey

Credits

3 credits/request

Platform

Old Navy

Response schema

#/definitions/oldnavy.categoryResponseDoc

Overview

Returns a category/browse listing for one storefront category id (cid). cid is an opaque Gap Inc category id assigned by the storefront's own navigation -- neither oldnavy-search nor oldnavy-category currently surface a category-id list, so find one from the storefront's own category page URLs (the cid query parameter on a /browse/... page) for now. Select the storefront with the brand parameter (`on` for Old Navy, `gap` for Gap, `br` for Banana Republic, `at` for Athleta; defaults to `on`) -- it must match the brand the cid was found under. Returns the category's subcategory breakdown, normalized product summaries with per-color inventory data, and available search facets with live counts. 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

- `categories` breaks the listing into its subcategory groups (e.g. "Slim Jeans" within a "Jeans" category), each with the specific color-level product ids (`items[].cc_id`) that belong to it. - Each product's `colors[].id` is the value to pass as `pid` to `oldnavy-product` for full product-detail data on that color -- the same id space as `oldnavy-search`'s `colors[].id`. - Each color additionally carries live inventory data not present on `oldnavy-search`: `inventory_count`, `inventory_status`, `back_order_inventory_count`, and `back_order_inventory_status`. - `facets` lists the available filters (price range, department, review score, color, fit, and others) with live per-option result counts. - An unknown `cid` returns `404`. A `page` beyond the upstream's own last page returns a `200` with an empty `products` array (not a `404`) -- this differs from `oldnavy-search`'s own overflow behavior. - A non-numeric or missing `cid` returns `400` before any upstream request is made. ```json {"code":200,"msg":"OK","data":{"category_id":"85729","brand":"on","page":1,"page_size":200,"total_pages":2,"total_colors":392,"count":1,"categories":[{"category_id":"85729","category_name":"Jeans","sub_category_id":"3051473","sub_category_name":"Slim Jeans","items":[{"cc_id":"896223002","style_id":"431453"}]}],"products":[{"id":"734897","name":"High-Waisted Wow Super-Skinny Jeans","review_score":4.6,"review_count":38414,"url":"https://oldnavy.gap.com/browse/product.do?pid=886872002","colors":[{"id":"886872002","name":"White","short_description":"Calla Lily White","price":22.0,"regular_price":34.99,"percentage_off":37,"image_url":"https://oldnavy.gap.com/webcontent/0061/704/456/cn61704456.jpg","inventory_count":55,"inventory_status":"In Stock","back_order_inventory_count":0,"back_order_inventory_status":"Out of Stock"}]}],"facets":[{"name":"price","type":"range","range_min":4.99,"range_max":64.99,"is_range":true},{"name":"department","label":"department","type":"single-select","options":[{"label":"Women","value":"Women","count":282}]}]}} ```

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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