Deal and price-drop monitoring
Use Slickdeals endpoints to turn deal and price-drop monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Marketplaces & Retail11 active endpointsapiKey
Slickdeals Scraper API
Turn Slickdeals' community-driven deals site into structured deal data -- full deal-thread detail, category/tag and legacy sub-forum taxonomy, the homepage deal feed and featured primary-category landing pages, deal-thread comments, and keyword search with real pagination, counts, and facets. Credential-free.
Extract Slickdeals deal threads, category and forum browse, homepage feed, comments, and search with facets as structured JSON.
Endpoint families
6
Documented params
31
Examples
11
Live catalog snapshot
Slickdeals coverage
Active endpoints
11
Methods
GET
Required params
15
Schema refs
11
Search2
Categories1
Category1
Comments1
{
"platform": "Slickdeals",
"endpoint": "slickdeals-search",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/slickdeals/search",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Workflows that fit Slickdeals
Extract Slickdeals deal threads, category and forum browse, homepage feed, comments, and search with facets as structured JSON.
Category and forum coverage research
Use Slickdeals endpoints to turn category and forum coverage research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Community sentiment tracking via deal comments
Use Slickdeals endpoints to turn community sentiment tracking via deal comments into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
How Crawlora handles this platform
Every figure below is read from the live Slickdeals endpoint catalog — 11 endpoints, 31 documented request parameters, and 11 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
Documented endpoint coverage
11 documented Slickdeals endpoints, grouped into 10 request families — Search, Categories and Category, plus 7 more.
Published request surface
31 request parameters are documented across those Slickdeals endpoints, 15 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
Known response shape
11 of the 11 Slickdeals endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 11 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
Documented failure modes
Slickdeals endpoints document their error responses (400, 404, 429 and 503) alongside the success schema, so a block, a rate limit, or a missing record comes back as a typed error rather than silently empty data.
Agent-callable MCP tools
11 hosted MCP tools back the Slickdeals endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
Know what the API can collect before integrating
2 endpoints
Search
/slickdeals/search
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Categories
/slickdeals/categories
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Category
/slickdeals/category
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Comments
/slickdeals/comments
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Deal
/slickdeals/deal
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Deal Types
/slickdeals/deal-types
GETapiKey
Endpoint catalog
Slickdeals API endpoints
GETapiKeyexample
/slickdeals/searchSearch Slickdeals community-submitted deals by keyword
Searches Slickdeals (slickdeals.net), a community deal/coupon aggregator, for deal threads matching a free-text keyword query. 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 is made. 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 is made; composes with forum_id.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 25 items, 7 fields filled in every item, 1 not. published_at: 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-13; store: amazon.com (10), bestbuy.com (10), walmart.com (2) and 2 more.
MCP tool slickdeals_search
q:queryforum_id:querydeal_type_id:query+1 more
GETapiKeyexample
/slickdeals/search/advancedSearch Slickdeals with real pagination, counts, and facets
Searches Slickdeals' modern search surface -- a richer alternative to GET /slickdeals/search's keyword-only search. Returns real pagination (page/total_pages/per_page/result_count), integer vote/comment/view counts (not parsed from free text), a fuller per-deal record (store id, discount percent, status flags), and facets -- Categories, Stores, and Brands available for the current query, each option carrying a value usable as category_id/brand_id/store_id. Facet values and counts are scoped to the current query, not a site-wide enumeration -- category_id/brand_id/store_id are passthrough filters (obtain a value from a prior response's own facets), not validated against a closed enum. sort defaults to relevance; other values are passed through unvalidated.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 40 items, 17 fields filled in every item, 4 not. posted_at: 2026-09-29 to 2026-10-12; discount: 7 to 69, median 30.
MCP tool slickdeals_search_advanced
q:querypage:querysort:query+4 more
GETapiKeyexample
/slickdeals/frontpageBrowse Slickdeals' own homepage deal feed
Returns one page of Slickdeals' own homepage deal listing -- the deals Slickdeals itself is currently featuring, distinct from a keyword search or a single category/tag's own listing. Each deal carries the same fields as GET /slickdeals/search/advanced's results (real integer vote/comment/view counts, store id, discount, status flags), plus is_fire_deal and has_rebate flags this feed's cards carry. Pagination is next-page-only (has_next_page), since the page itself exposes no total page count.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 197 items, 19 fields filled in every item, 2 not. posted_at: 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-13; discount: 5 to 87, median 48.
MCP tool slickdeals_frontpage
page:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/slickdeals/dealGet one Slickdeals deal thread's full detail
Returns one Slickdeals deal thread's full detail: title, store, final/list price, community vote score, comment count, whether the deal is marked expired, the deal's product category and taxonomy (category/sub_category/category_paths, and separately the legacy forum/forum_id the thread was posted under), the public Slickdeals username who posted it ("found by" attribution) with a public community-standing summary (reputation, join date, deals posted, total votes/comments), a related_deals sidebar (Slickdeals' own Popular/Trending picks), the outbound merchant link, and the deal's own description. Give either url (the exact value returned by GET /slickdeals/search) or thread_id (Slickdeals' own numeric thread id, e.g. from a deal's URL path /f/{thread_id}-...); at least one is required. An unknown or removed deal returns 404.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 10 items, 8 fields filled in every item, 2 not. posted_at: 2026-10-13; source: popular (5), trending (5).
MCP tool slickdeals_deal
url:querythread_id:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/slickdeals/commentsGet one Slickdeals deal thread's comments
Returns one Slickdeals deal thread's full comment thread: for each comment, the public username who posted it (with their forum rank/title and total post count), the comment content (as HTML and as cleaned plain text), when it was posted, a permalink, and reaction counts (like, funny, helpful, not helpful). Give either url (the exact value returned by GET /slickdeals/search or GET /slickdeals/deal) or thread_id; at least one is required. has_more indicates whether Slickdeals' own page truncated the reply list (no further pagination is currently exposed by this endpoint).
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 5 items, 12 fields filled in every item. posted_at: 2026-09-14 to 2026-09-15; author_post_count: 49 to 5,737, median 556.
MCP tool slickdeals_comments
url:querythread_id:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/slickdeals/categoriesList every Slickdeals deal category/tag
Returns Slickdeals' own full category/tag list -- the discovery endpoint for GET /slickdeals/category's slug parameter. This is a separate taxonomy from the category/sub_category fields GET /slickdeals/deal returns for an individual deal (Slickdeals maintains multiple parallel category/tag id spaces, not one) -- these slugs are the ones GET /slickdeals/category's own browse pages accept. The list is refreshed from Slickdeals' own site periodically; an optional q parameter narrows it to a substring match.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 422 items, 3 fields filled in every item. name: “Apple” and 420 other values; url: slickdeals.net.
MCP tool slickdeals_categories
q:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/slickdeals/categoryBrowse current deals in one Slickdeals category/tag
Returns the current deal listing for one Slickdeals category/tag (e.g. "laptop-bag", "apparel"): for each deal, title, price, list price, store, community vote score, comment count, the public username who posted it, and status flags (is_popular, is_expired, is_new, is_frontpage). slug must be one of the values from GET /slickdeals/categories -- an unrecognized slug returns a typed invalid-parameter error rather than being sent upstream. Pair a result's thread_id or url with GET /slickdeals/deal for the full detail record (description, full taxonomy).
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 39 items, 12 fields filled in every item, 2 not. posted_at: 2026-09-13 to 2026-10-13; store: Amazon (27), Lenovo (6), Walmart (2) and 3 more.
MCP tool slickdeals_category
slug:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/slickdeals/primary-categoriesList Slickdeals' featured primary-category landing pages
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.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 13 items, 3 fields filled in every item. name: “4K TVs” and 12 other values; url: slickdeals.net.
MCP tool slickdeals_primary_categories
q:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/slickdeals/primary-categoryBrowse current deals in one Slickdeals featured primary category
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.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 40 items, 14 fields filled in every item. posted_at: 2026-09-28 to 2026-10-13; vote_score: 1 to 128, median 11.
MCP tool slickdeals_primary_category
slug:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/slickdeals/deal-typesList every Slickdeals deal-type tag
Returns Slickdeals' own deal-type tag list (Coupon, Free / Freebie, Giveaway, Gift Card, Mail In Rebate, Online Only, YMMV, ...) -- the discovery endpoint for GET /slickdeals/search's deal_type_id parameter. Confirmed identical across multiple Slickdeals sub-forums, unlike the broader interest-tag space it is drawn from, which was not found to be reliably enumerable. An optional q parameter narrows it to a substring match on name.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 10 items, 2 fields filled in every item. name: “Brick & Mortar (B&M)” and 9 other values.
MCP tool slickdeals_deal_types
q:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/slickdeals/forumsList every Slickdeals legacy sub-forum
Returns Slickdeals' own full legacy sub-forum list (e.g. Hot Deals, Coupons, Freebies) -- the discovery endpoint for GET /slickdeals/search's forum_id parameter. A separate, coarser-grained taxonomy from GET /slickdeals/categories' 421-entry tag list: this is the classification GET /slickdeals/deal, /slickdeals/search/advanced, and /slickdeals/frontpage already surface as forum_id, with this endpoint as the way to resolve an id to a name or filter search results by it. The list is refreshed from Slickdeals' own site periodically; an optional q parameter narrows it to a substring match on name.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 27 items, 3 fields filled in every item. name: “Hot Deals” and 26 other values; url: slickdeals.net.
MCP tool slickdeals_forums
q:queryx-api-key:header
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How to scrape Slickdeals
Extract Slickdeals data in 7 steps
Slickdeals is a community-submitted deals site organized by category, tag, and legacy sub-forum, with its own homepage feed and featured primary categories. Crawlora's Slickdeals endpoints return deal-thread, taxonomy, feed, comment, and search data as normalized JSON -- no account. A pull on 2026-10-27 showed the frontpage at 229 deals, a category directory of 422 slugs, 13 featured primary categories, 10 deal types and 27 forums.
- Step 1
Browse categories, tags, or forums
List every category/tag with /slickdeals/categories, every deal-type tag with /slickdeals/deal-types, or every legacy sub-forum with /slickdeals/forums, then browse one with /slickdeals/category.
- Step 2
Browse the homepage or featured categories
Use /slickdeals/frontpage for Slickdeals' own homepage deal feed, or /slickdeals/primary-categories and /slickdeals/primary-category for its featured primary-category landing pages.
- Step 3
Search deals
Use /slickdeals/search for a fast keyword search, or /slickdeals/search/advanced for real pagination, counts, and facets.
- Step 4
Get deal-thread detail and comments
Pass a deal identifier to /slickdeals/deal for full detail, and /slickdeals/comments for that thread's comments.
- Step 5
Size the frontpage feed
frontpage returned 229 deals on page one with has_next_page true. Each deal has a thread_id, title, URL, image, final_price (for example $5.00), store id and store name.
- Step 6
Choose the right taxonomy
The 422-slug categories list is the full tag directory, while primary-categories returned 13 featured ones (4k-tv-deals first). deal-types returned 10, starting with Brick & Mortar (B&M), and forums returned 27, starting with Hot Deals (id 9).
- Step 7
Join deals to threads
Pass thread_id or url to the deal and comments routes. The frontpage fields come from the list, so refetch the deal for the full body and expiry.
Agent skills
Use Slickdeals data from your coding agent
Install a Crawlora agent skill and your agent can pull Slickdeals data as JSON through the documented API, without writing a scraper. These skills cover Slickdeals:
Deal discovery research
Find and compare Slickdeals and RetailMeNot offers through Crawlora deal search, categories, advanced facets, deal detail, and community comments.…
npx skills add github.com/Crawlora-org/crawlora-skills --skill deal-discovery-research
FAQ
Scraping Slickdeals: common questions
How do I scrape Slickdeals deals?
Use /slickdeals/search or /slickdeals/search/advanced for keyword search, or browse /slickdeals/frontpage, /slickdeals/category, or /slickdeals/primary-category, then pass a deal identifier to /slickdeals/deal for full detail -- all as structured JSON, no account.
Can I get comments on a Slickdeals deal thread?
Yes. /slickdeals/comments returns one deal thread's comments.
Does Slickdeals search support pagination and facets?
Yes, on the advanced route. /slickdeals/search/advanced returns real pagination, result counts, and facets; /slickdeals/search is a simpler keyword-only search.
Is scraping Slickdeals legal?
Collecting publicly accessible deal, category, feed, comment, and search data is generally permissible if you respect Slickdeals' terms of use, robots directives, rate limits, and applicable law.
How many deals does the Slickdeals frontpage return?
229 on page one on 2026-10-27, with more pages available.