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Slickdeals API endpoint

Slickdeals Primary Category API

Returns the current deal listing for one Slickdeals featured primary-category landing page (e.g. laptop-deals, tv-deals): for each deal, title, price, list price, store, community vote score, comment count, found-by username, and status flags. slug must be one of the values from GET /slickdeals/primary-categories -- an unrecognized slug (including a valid GET /slickdeals/categories tag slug, which is a different taxonomy) returns a typed invalid-parameter error rather than being sent upstream.

GETapiKey2 credits/requestSlickdealsslickdeals.primaryCategoryResponseDoc/slickdeals/primary-category

Endpoint facts

Method: GET
API path: /slickdeals/primary-category
Auth: apiKey
Credits: 2 credits/request
Charged on: Successful 2xx responses only
Platform: Slickdeals
Response schema: #/definitions/slickdeals.primaryCategoryResponseDoc

Slickdeals Scraper API Try Slickdeals Primary Category API in Playground Slickdeals API documentation

How this endpoint behaves

Query parameters:

slug (required) — a featured-category slug from GET /slickdeals/primary-categories. An unrecognized slug — including a valid GET /slickdeals/categories tag slug, which is a different taxonomy — returns a typed invalid-parameter error rather than being sent upstream.

Response includes slug, deals[], count, source_url, and fetched_at. A category with genuinely no current deals returns an empty deals list, not an error.

Each deal has the same shape as GET /slickdeals/category's deals — see that endpoint's docs for the full field list (thread_id, title, url, price, list_price, store, vote_score, comment_count, found_by, is_popular, is_expired, is_new, is_frontpage, posted_at) — both endpoints read the same underlying page template.

Live monitoring

Monitored request: GET /slickdeals/primary-category?slug=laptop-deals
Checks passed, 7 days to 14 Oct 2026: 98.7%
Median response time: 3.46 s

Current status of every endpoint

Sampled response

Request, 14 Oct 2026: GET /slickdeals/primary-category?slug=laptop-deals
Items in deals: 40
Fields filled in every checked item: 14

Field	Filled in, of 40 checked	Values in the sample
thread_id	40
title	40	“14.2" Apple MacBook Pro Laptop (2026): M5 Chip,18C/20C, 24G…” and 39 other values
url	40	median 106 characters
price	40	“$2599” and 34 other values
list_price	40	“$3199” and 34 other values
store	40	“Best Buy” and 11 other values
vote_score	40	1 to 128, median 11
comment_count	40	0 to 44, median 7
found_by	40	“Dr.W” and 24 other values
is_popular	40	true in 23 of 40
is_expired	40	true in 0 of 40
is_new	40	true in 0 of 40
is_frontpage	40	true in 7 of 40
posted_at	40	2026-09-28 to 2026-10-13

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description	Example
slug	string	Yes		Featured-category slug from GET /slickdeals/primary-categories	laptop-deals
x-api-key (header)	string	Yes		API key required

cURL example

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/slickdeals/primary-category?slug=laptop-deals" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "slug": "laptop-deals",
    "deals": [
      {
        "thread_id": 19936956,
        "title": "27L Thule EnRoute Escort 2 Backpack (Dark Shadow) + Earn 10% Back w/ Prime Visa",
        "url": "https://slickdeals.net/f/19936956-...",
        "price": "$52.48",
        "list_price": "$149.95",
        "store": "Amazon",
        "vote_score": 71,
        "comment_count": 12,
        "found_by": "phoinix",
        "is_popular": false,
        "is_expired": false,
        "is_new": false,
        "is_frontpage": true,
        "posted_at": "2026-08-28T14:22:52Z"
      }
    ],
    "count": 40,
    "source_url": "https://slickdeals.net/laptop-deals/",
    "fetched_at": "2026-09-15T09:00:00Z"
  }
}

Request schema

No body schema

Response schema

#/definitions/slickdeals.primaryCategoryResponseDoc

Field	Type	Required	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.PrimaryCategoryResponse	No
data.count	integer	No	40
data.deals	array	No		CategoryDeal record, 14 fields: comment_count, found_by, is_expired, is_frontpage, is_new, is_popular, list_price, posted_at, price, store, thread_id, title and 2 more. Described under Slickdeals Category API.
data.fetched_at	string	No
data.slug	string	No	laptop-deals
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
400	Bad Request	#/definitions/app.Response
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-category?slug=laptop-deals" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Shared guides

Authentication Errors and retries Rate limits and credits Pricing Acceptable use

More Slickdeals endpoint docs Slickdeals Scraper API Slickdeals Categories API documentation Slickdeals Category API documentation Slickdeals Comments API documentation Slickdeals Deal Types API documentation Slickdeals Deal API documentation Slickdeals Forums API documentation

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Slickdeals API endpoint

Slickdeals Primary Category API

GETapiKey2 credits/requestSlickdealsslickdeals.primaryCategoryResponseDoc/slickdeals/primary-category

Endpoint facts

Method: GET
API path: /slickdeals/primary-category
Auth: apiKey
Credits: 2 credits/request
Charged on: Successful 2xx responses only
Platform: Slickdeals
Response schema: #/definitions/slickdeals.primaryCategoryResponseDoc

Slickdeals Scraper API Try Slickdeals Primary Category API in Playground Slickdeals API documentation

How this endpoint behaves

Query parameters:

slug (required) — a featured-category slug from GET /slickdeals/primary-categories. An unrecognized slug — including a valid GET /slickdeals/categories tag slug, which is a different taxonomy — returns a typed invalid-parameter error rather than being sent upstream.

Response includes slug, deals[], count, source_url, and fetched_at. A category with genuinely no current deals returns an empty deals list, not an error.

Live monitoring

Monitored request: GET /slickdeals/primary-category?slug=laptop-deals
Checks passed, 7 days to 14 Oct 2026: 98.7%
Median response time: 3.46 s

Current status of every endpoint

Sampled response

Request, 14 Oct 2026: GET /slickdeals/primary-category?slug=laptop-deals
Items in deals: 40
Fields filled in every checked item: 14

Field	Filled in, of 40 checked	Values in the sample
thread_id	40
title	40	“14.2" Apple MacBook Pro Laptop (2026): M5 Chip,18C/20C, 24G…” and 39 other values
url	40	median 106 characters
price	40	“$2599” and 34 other values
list_price	40	“$3199” and 34 other values
store	40	“Best Buy” and 11 other values
vote_score	40	1 to 128, median 11
comment_count	40	0 to 44, median 7
found_by	40	“Dr.W” and 24 other values
is_popular	40	true in 23 of 40
is_expired	40	true in 0 of 40
is_new	40	true in 0 of 40
is_frontpage	40	true in 7 of 40
posted_at	40	2026-09-28 to 2026-10-13

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description	Example
slug	string	Yes		Featured-category slug from GET /slickdeals/primary-categories	laptop-deals
x-api-key (header)	string	Yes		API key required

cURL example

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/slickdeals/primary-category?slug=laptop-deals" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "slug": "laptop-deals",
    "deals": [
      {
        "thread_id": 19936956,
        "title": "27L Thule EnRoute Escort 2 Backpack (Dark Shadow) + Earn 10% Back w/ Prime Visa",
        "url": "https://slickdeals.net/f/19936956-...",
        "price": "$52.48",
        "list_price": "$149.95",
        "store": "Amazon",
        "vote_score": 71,
        "comment_count": 12,
        "found_by": "phoinix",
        "is_popular": false,
        "is_expired": false,
        "is_new": false,
        "is_frontpage": true,
        "posted_at": "2026-08-28T14:22:52Z"
      }
    ],
    "count": 40,
    "source_url": "https://slickdeals.net/laptop-deals/",
    "fetched_at": "2026-09-15T09:00:00Z"
  }
}

Request schema

No body schema

Response schema

#/definitions/slickdeals.primaryCategoryResponseDoc

Field	Type	Required	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.PrimaryCategoryResponse	No
data.count	integer	No	40
data.deals	array	No		CategoryDeal record, 14 fields: comment_count, found_by, is_expired, is_frontpage, is_new, is_popular, list_price, posted_at, price, store, thread_id, title and 2 more. Described under Slickdeals Category API.
data.fetched_at	string	No
data.slug	string	No	laptop-deals
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
400	Bad Request	#/definitions/app.Response
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-category?slug=laptop-deals" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Shared guides

Authentication Errors and retries Rate limits and credits Pricing Acceptable use

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Slickdeals Primary Category API

Endpoint facts

How this endpoint behaves

Live monitoring

Sampled response

Request parameters

cURL example

Example JSON response

Failure responses

Code examples

Shared guides

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Slickdeals Primary Category API

Endpoint facts

How this endpoint behaves

Live monitoring

Sampled response

Request parameters

cURL example

Example JSON response

Failure responses

Code examples

Shared guides

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