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Try the The RealReal category taxonomy API

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.

What a live request returned

14 Oct 2026: 8 categories; 5 fields had a value in every checked item.

Observed request: GET /therealreal/categories
Fields with a value in every checked item: id, name, permalink, count, children

Sample value profiles: count: 11 to 2,228,269, median 11,042; name: “Women” and 7 other values; children: median 4 entries.

Request: GET /therealreal/categories
Cost: 2 credits/request
Auth: apiKey
Checks passed, 7 days to 14 Oct 2026: 100%, median 0.32 s
Monitored request: GET /therealreal/categories

The RealReal category taxonomy API documentation The RealReal platform page Pricing

Prefilled cURL

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

Request parameters

No request parameters

Example JSON response

{
  "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"
  }
}

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Endpoint

GETapiKey2 credits/requesttherealreal.categoriesResponseDocThe RealReal

GET /therealreal/categories

Get The RealReal category browse taxonomy

Response behavior

- This is reference data that changes rarely, so responses are cached for 24 hours — repeated calls within that window return the cached result rather than re-fetching from The RealReal. - The taxonomy covers every top-level department The RealReal sells across (`women`, `men`, `jewelry`, `watches`, `art`, `home`, `kids`, `beauty`), nested arbitrarily deep — not just the department a particular fetch happens to be scoped to.

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Sample responseGET

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{
  "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"
  }
}

Endpoint Playground

Try the The RealReal category taxonomy API

What a live request returned

14 Oct 2026: 8 categories; 5 fields had a value in every checked item.

Observed request: GET /therealreal/categories
Fields with a value in every checked item: id, name, permalink, count, children

Sample value profiles: count: 11 to 2,228,269, median 11,042; name: “Women” and 7 other values; children: median 4 entries.

Request: GET /therealreal/categories
Cost: 2 credits/request
Auth: apiKey
Checks passed, 7 days to 14 Oct 2026: 100%, median 0.32 s
Monitored request: GET /therealreal/categories

The RealReal category taxonomy API documentation The RealReal platform page Pricing

Prefilled cURL

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

Request parameters

No request parameters

Example JSON response

{
  "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"
  }
}

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Endpoint

GETapiKey2 credits/requesttherealreal.categoriesResponseDocThe RealReal

GET /therealreal/categories

Get The RealReal category browse taxonomy

Response behavior

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Sample responseGET

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{
  "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"
  }
}