Slickdeals API endpoint
Use Crawlora's Slickdeals Search API to extract supported public Slickdeals data as structured JSON. This page includes request parameters, cURL examples, response schema, error behavior, credit cost, and a Playground link for testing before integration.
/slickdeals/searchSearches Slickdeals (slickdeals.net), a community deal/coupon aggregator, for deal threads matching a free-text keyword query -- the same search this repo already exposes for Reddit, applied to Slickdeals' own deal-posting community. Each result is one community-submitted deal thread with its title (which conventionally embeds the deal price), a best-effort price extracted from that title, the merchant domain, the community vote ("thumb") score, the public Slickdeals username who posted it, and when it was posted. Pair a result's thread_id or url with GET /slickdeals/deal for the full detail record, including comment count and category. An optional forum_id restricts results to one Slickdeals legacy sub-forum (e.g. Hot Deals, Coupons) -- obtain a value from GET /slickdeals/forums, a closed enum validated before the request reaches upstream. An optional deal_type_id restricts results to one Slickdeals deal-type tag (e.g. Coupon, Free / Freebie, YMMV) -- obtain a value from GET /slickdeals/deal-types, also a closed enum validated before the request reaches upstream; composes with forum_id. 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.
Request parameters are generated from the active endpoint catalog. Required values must be sent before Crawlora can call the upstream public web data source.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| q | string | Yes | Free-text keyword query | ||
| forum_id | integer | No | Restrict results to one Slickdeals legacy sub-forum, from GET /slickdeals/forums | ||
| deal_type_id | integer | No | Restrict results to one Slickdeals deal-type tag, from GET /slickdeals/deal-types | ||
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/slickdeals/search?q=coffee" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Send your scraping API key in the x-api-key header. Use the console API Keys page to rotate or select the active key.
Endpoint usage is metered in credits. The plan prices, included credits, limits, and overage rates below match the active backend billing configuration.
| Plan | Price | Included credits | Daily cap | Rate limit | Overage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 2,000 | 500 daily credits | 5/min | No overage |
| Starter | $9/mo | 20,000 | 5,000 daily credits | 15/min | $0.75/1,000 overage credits when enabled |
| Growth | $29/mo | 100,000 | 25,000 daily credits | 45/min | $0.45/1,000 overage credits when enabled |
| Pro | $79/mo | 400,000 | No daily cap | 120/min | $0.30/1,000 overage credits |
| Business | $199/mo | 1,200,000 | No daily cap | 300/min | $0.20/1,000 overage credits |
| Enterprise | $499/mo | 5,000,000 | No daily cap | 1,000/min | $0.12/1,000 overage credits |
This endpoint is executed through Crawlora's managed scraping infrastructure.
Crawlora does not silently return bad data when the upstream page cannot be used.
| Status | Common failure case |
|---|---|
| 400 | Invalid input or missing required parameter |
| 429 | Plan or endpoint rate limit exceeded |
| 500 | Internal execution error |
| 502 | Upstream platform failed, returned unusable HTML, or served a challenge page that could not be resolved |
When possible, Crawlora returns structured error context so your integration can retry, back off, or inspect the request.
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Bad Request | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 429 | Too Many Requests | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 503 | Service Unavailable | #/definitions/app.Response |
{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"query": "laptop",
"results": [
{
"thread_id": 20015817,
"title": "Microsoft Surface Laptop 5 13.5\" 2.5GHz/16GB/256GB - Refurb w/Warranty $358.53",
"url": "https://slickdeals.net/f/20015817-microsoft-surface-laptop-5-13-5-2-5ghz-16gb-256gb-refurb-w-warranty-358-53",
"price": "$358.53",
"store": "ebay.com",
"vote_score": -2,
"found_by": "BML6182",
"published_at": "2026-09-15T02:13:22Z"
}
],
"count": 1,
"source_url": "https://slickdeals.net/newsearch.php?q=laptop&rss=1",
"fetched_at": "2026-09-15T04:00:00Z"
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/slickdeals.searchResponseDoc
| 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.SearchResponse | No | ||||
| data.count | integer | No | 25 | |||
| data.fetched_at | string | No | ||||
| data.query | string | No | laptop | |||
| data.results | array | No | ||||
| data.results[].found_by | string | No | BML6182 | |||
| data.results[].price | string | No | $358.53 | |||
| data.results[].published_at | string | No | 2026-09-15T02:13:22Z | |||
| data.results[].store | string | No | ebay.com | |||
| data.results[].thread_id | integer | No | 20015817 | |||
| data.results[].title | string | No | Microsoft Surface Laptop 5 13.5" 2.5GHz/16GB/256GB - Refurb w/Warranty $358.53 | Title is Slickdeals' own thread title, which conventionally embeds the deal price (e.g. "... $358.53") -- Price is a best-effort convenience field extracted from it, not a separately structured upstream field. | ||
| data.results[].url | string | No | https://slickdeals.net/f/20015817-microsoft-surface-laptop-5-13-5-2-5ghz-16gb-256gb-refurb-w-warranty-358-53 | |||
| data.results[].vote_score | integer | No | 16 | |||
| data.source_url | string | No | ||||
| msg | unknown | No | Msg is the message that describes the result of the request @example "Request successful" |
Use environment variables for secrets and keep Crawlora API keys server-side.
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/slickdeals/search?q=coffee" \
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