Endpoint Playground

Try the Sonic Drive-In Categories API

Returns Sonic Drive-In's national menu's top-level categories -- Breakfast, Value, Limited Time, Combos, Burgers, Chicken, Hot Dogs, Sandwiches, Snacks & Sides, Sweets, Tea & Coffee, Lemonades & Limeades, Sodas, Slushes, Refreshers, Wacky Pack Kids Meals and others -- each with its slug (the value GET /sonic/menu takes) and a page_count of subcategory/item pages nested under it.

What a live request returned

14 Oct 2026: 19 categories; 4 fields had a value in every checked item.

Observed request: GET /sonic/categories
Fields with a value in every checked item: name, slug, page_count, url

Sample value profiles: name: “Breakfast” and 18 other values; url: sonicdrivein.com.

Request: GET /sonic/categories
Cost: 1 credit/request
Auth: apiKey
Checks passed, 7 days to 14 Oct 2026: 100%, median 0.27 s
Monitored request: GET /sonic/categories

Sonic Drive-In Categories API documentation Sonic platform page Pricing

Prefilled cURL

curl 'https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/sonic/categories' \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Request parameters

No request parameters

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "categories": [
      {
        "name": "Tea & Coffee",
        "slug": "tea-coffee",
        "page_count": 24,
        "url": "https://www.sonicdrivein.com/menu/categories/tea-coffee/"
      }
    ],
    "count": 20,
    "source_url": "https://www.sonicdrivein.com/_next/data/<buildId>/menu/categories.json",
    "fetched_at": "2026-09-04T12:00:00Z"
  }
}

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Endpoint

GETapiKey1 credit/requestsonic.categoriesResponseDocSonic

GET /sonic/categories

List Sonic Drive-In menu categories

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Sample responseGET

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{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "categories": [
      {
        "name": "Tea & Coffee",
        "slug": "tea-coffee",
        "page_count": 24,
        "url": "https://www.sonicdrivein.com/menu/categories/tea-coffee/"
      }
    ],
    "count": 20,
    "source_url": "https://www.sonicdrivein.com/_next/data/<buildId>/menu/categories.json",
    "fetched_at": "2026-09-04T12:00:00Z"
  }
}

Endpoint Playground

Try the Sonic Drive-In Categories API

What a live request returned

14 Oct 2026: 19 categories; 4 fields had a value in every checked item.

Observed request: GET /sonic/categories
Fields with a value in every checked item: name, slug, page_count, url

Sample value profiles: name: “Breakfast” and 18 other values; url: sonicdrivein.com.

Request: GET /sonic/categories
Cost: 1 credit/request
Auth: apiKey
Checks passed, 7 days to 14 Oct 2026: 100%, median 0.27 s
Monitored request: GET /sonic/categories

Sonic Drive-In Categories API documentation Sonic platform page Pricing

Prefilled cURL

curl 'https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/sonic/categories' \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Request parameters

No request parameters

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "categories": [
      {
        "name": "Tea & Coffee",
        "slug": "tea-coffee",
        "page_count": 24,
        "url": "https://www.sonicdrivein.com/menu/categories/tea-coffee/"
      }
    ],
    "count": 20,
    "source_url": "https://www.sonicdrivein.com/_next/data/<buildId>/menu/categories.json",
    "fetched_at": "2026-09-04T12:00:00Z"
  }
}

More Sonic endpoints

The sample response, schema and code snippets below work without an account. Sending a live request needs an API key.

Set up API key Endpoint docs

Endpoint

Choose one catalog endpoint for this request.

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Group

Method

Auth

Endpoint

GETapiKey1 credit/requestsonic.categoriesResponseDocSonic

GET /sonic/categories

List Sonic Drive-In menu categories

API key required. Paste a full key or rotate one from the API Keys page.

Set up API key

View docs

API key

API key required for live requests. Your key is only used to send requests from this Playground.

not configured

Active Playground key: not configured

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If an active API key is configured, Copy cURL includes it. Share links never include API keys.

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Sample responseGET

Shown before your first request. Add an API key and send a request to see the live response, status, latency, and headers.

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "categories": [
      {
        "name": "Tea & Coffee",
        "slug": "tea-coffee",
        "page_count": 24,
        "url": "https://www.sonicdrivein.com/menu/categories/tea-coffee/"
      }
    ],
    "count": 20,
    "source_url": "https://www.sonicdrivein.com/_next/data/<buildId>/menu/categories.json",
    "fetched_at": "2026-09-04T12:00:00Z"
  }
}