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Slickdeals API endpoint
Slickdeals Primary Categories API
Returns Slickdeals' small, curated set of "featured" primary-category landing pages (e.g. laptop-deals, tv-deals) -- the discovery endpoint for GET /slickdeals/primary-category's slug parameter. This is a separate taxonomy from GET /slickdeals/categories' 421-entry tag list and from GET /slickdeals/deal's own category/sub_category fields -- Slickdeals maintains multiple parallel category/tag id spaces, not one. Unlike /slickdeals/categories, no single live page enumerates this set; it is maintained as periodically-refreshed reference data.
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Slickdeals/slickdeals/primary-categoriesEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /slickdeals/primary-categories
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 1 credit/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- Slickdeals
- Response schema
- #/definitions/slickdeals.primaryCategoriesResponseDoc
How this endpoint behaves
Unlike /slickdeals/categories, this set is maintained as reference data rather than fetched fresh on every call.
Query parameters:
q(optional) — case-insensitive substring filter on slug or name, e.g.laptop.
Response includes categories[], count, and source_url. Each category has slug, name, and url.
The full set of 13 slugs, usable as GET /slickdeals/primary-category's slug parameter: 4k-tv-deals, cell-phone-deals, computer-case-deals, computer-deals, dslr-camera-deals, furniture-deals, laptop-deals, monitor-deals, ps4-deals, travel-deals, tv-deals, video-game-deals, xbox-one-deals.
Live monitoring
- Monitored request
- GET /slickdeals/primary-categories
- Checks passed, 7 days to 14 Oct 2026
- 100%
- Median response time
- 0.09 s
Sampled response
- Request, 14 Oct 2026
- GET /slickdeals/primary-categories
- Items in categories
- 13
- Fields filled in every checked item
- 3
| Field | Filled in, of 13 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| slug | 13 | |
| name | 13 | “4K TVs” and 12 other values |
| url | 13 | slickdeals.net |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| q | string | No | Case-insensitive substring filter on slug or name | laptop | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
cURL example
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/slickdeals/primary-categories?q=coffee" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Example JSON response
{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"categories": [
{
"slug": "laptop-deals",
"name": "Laptops",
"url": "https://slickdeals.net/laptop-deals/"
},
{
"slug": "tv-deals",
"name": "TVs",
"url": "https://slickdeals.net/tv-deals/"
}
],
"count": 13,
"source_url": "https://slickdeals.net/deal-categories/"
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/slickdeals.primaryCategoriesResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| code | integer | No | Code is the HTTP status code or a custom code used to indicate the result of the request @example 200 | |||
| data | slickdeals.PrimaryCategoriesResponse | No | ||||
| data.categories | array | No | ||||
| data.categories[].name | string | No | Laptop Bags | |||
| data.categories[].slug | string | No | laptop-bag | |||
| data.categories[].url | string | No | https://slickdeals.net/deals/laptop-bag/ | |||
| data.count | integer | No | 13 | |||
| data.source_url | string | No | ||||
| msg | unknown | No | Msg is the message that describes the result of the request @example "Request successful" |
Failure responses
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 429 | Too Many Requests | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 503 | Service Unavailable | #/definitions/app.Response |
Code examples
Use environment variables for secrets and keep Crawlora API keys server-side.
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/slickdeals/primary-categories?q=coffee" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"