The RealReal API endpoint
Returns The RealReal's full category (taxon) browse taxonomy: every department, category, and subcategory, nested, with each entry's id (usable directly against search's category_id), permalink (usable directly against the category endpoint's path), and live matching item count. This is reference data that changes rarely, so responses are cached.
/therealreal/categoriesNo request parameters.
Notable response behavior:
women, men, jewelry, watches, art, home, kids, beauty),
nested arbitrarily deep — not just the department a particular fetch
happens to be scoped to.| Field | Filled in, of 8 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| id | 8 | |
| name | 8 | “Women” and 7 other values |
| permalink | 8 | “women” and 7 other values |
| count | 8 | 11 to 2,228,269, median 11,042 |
| children | 8 | median 4 entries |
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/therealreal/categories" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"categories": [
{
"id": "329",
"name": "Women",
"permalink": "women",
"count": 2546988,
"children": [
{
"id": "493",
"name": "Handbags",
"permalink": "women/handbags",
"count": 225361,
"children": [
{
"id": "548",
"name": "Backpacks",
"permalink": "women/handbags/backpacks",
"count": 6926
}
]
}
]
}
],
"source_url": "https://www.therealreal.com/shop/women/handbags"
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/therealreal.categoriesResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| code | integer | No | 200 | |||
| data | therealreal.CategoriesResponse | No | ||||
| data.categories | array | No | ||||
| data.categories[].children | array | No | ||||
| data.categories[].count | integer | No | 225361 | |||
| data.categories[].id | string | No | 493 | |||
| data.categories[].name | string | No | Handbags | |||
| data.categories[].permalink | string | No | women/handbags | |||
| data.source_url | string | No | ||||
| msg | string | No | OK |
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 500 | Internal Server Error | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 503 | Service Unavailable | #/definitions/app.Response |
Use environment variables for secrets and keep Crawlora API keys server-side.
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/therealreal/categories" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"