Etsy Category Search API

REST API and MCP service documentation generated from server-side API definitions. Responses use the shared code, msg, and data envelope.

API selector

Etsy Marketplace

API overview

Find Etsy category IDs by category name, ID, or parent ID for product and store filtering. Review request and response fields.

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Endpoint

https://api.nexscope.ai/api/skill-api/v1/skills/etsy-category-search/run

MCP method

nexscope_etsy_category_search

Authentication

All run endpoints require a user API key. Send it as a bearer token in the Authorization header.

Authorization: Bearer nk-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Missing or invalid API keys return an authentication error. Manage keys from .

POSThttps://api.nexscope.ai/api/skill-api/v1/skills/etsy-category-search/run

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Request parameters documented by ecommerce.etsy-category-search.

Slug	`etsy-category-search`
Headers	`Authorization: Bearer nk-...` `Content-Type: application/json`
Request body	API-specific JSON object.
Response body	Platform envelope: code, msg, data, ts, time, cost, traceId. Inspect data.status for asynchronous completion.

Status codes

Code	Description
200	HTTP request completed. Check JSON code; only 0 indicates business success or acceptance.
400	Request JSON or required API parameters are invalid.
401	API key is missing, invalid, or cannot be matched to a user.
5xx	API execution or upstream service failed.

Example request

curl -X POST https://api.nexscope.ai/api/skill-api/v1/skills/etsy-category-search/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer nk-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{   "pageSize": 1,   "keyword": "phone case",   "page": 1 }'

All categories/ Etsy Marketplace

POSThttps://api.nexscope.ai/api/skill-api/v1/skills/etsy-category-search/run

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Endpoint

Method	`POST`
Path	`https://api.nexscope.ai/api/skill-api/v1/skills/etsy-category-search/run`
Auth	`Bearer API key`
Content-Type	`application/json`

Request body

Name	Type	Required	Description
`keyword`	`string`	required	Keyword: matches category name, category id, or parentIds fields (substring) Example: phone case
`page`	`integer`	optional	Page number (starting from 1) Example: 1
`pageSize`	`integer`	optional	Items per page, max 200 Example: 1

Request example

{
  "pageSize": 1,
  "keyword": "phone case",
  "page": 1
}

Response body

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data`	`any`	required	Data value used by this API operation.
`code`	`integer`	required	0 means accepted or successful; nonzero is a platform error.
`msg`	`string \| null`	required	Msg value used by this API operation.
`ts`	`string`	required	Epoch milliseconds.
`time`	`string`	required	Server local time: yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.
`cost`	`string`	required	Elapsed milliseconds, never credits; -1 outside web requests.
`traceId`	`string \| null`	required	Trace id value used by this API operation.

Any of option 1

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data`	`object`	required	Data value used by this API operation.
`data.total`	`integer`	optional	Number of records returned on this page Example: 1
`data.costToken`	`integer`	optional	Token consumption (local retrieval is free) Example: 1
`data.categories`	`array`	optional	List of matching categories Example: []
`data.title`	`string`	optional	Title Example: null
`data.categories[].categoryLevel`	`integer`	optional	Category level Example: 1
`data.categories[].id`	`string`	optional	Category ID Example: example-id
`data.categories[].name`	`string`	optional	Category name Example: null
`data.categories[].parentId`	`string`	optional	Canonical primary parent category ID Example: example-id
`data.categories[].parentIds`	`string`	optional	All non-empty parent category IDs (comma-separated) Example: null
`data.type`	`string`	optional	Provider-specific render or payload type. Example: null
`data.sourceType`	`string`	optional	Provider-specific source platform type. Example: null
`data.sourceTool`	`string`	optional	Provider-specific source tool name. Example: null
`data.costTime`	`integer`	optional	Execution time reported by the upstream provider. Example: null
`data.page`	`integer`	optional	Current page returned by the upstream provider. Example: null
`data.pageSize`	`integer`	optional	Page size returned by the upstream provider. Example: null
`data.pageItemCount`	`integer`	optional	Item count on the current page returned by the upstream provider. Example: null
`data.totalPage`	`integer`	optional	Total page count returned by the upstream provider. Example: null
`data.dataSnapshotMonth`	`string`	optional	Data snapshot month returned by the upstream provider. Example: null

Any of option 2

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data`	`null`	required	Data value used by this API operation.

Response example

Platform response envelope. code 0 indicates success or acceptance; data contains the business result.

{
  "data": {
    "total": 1,
    "costToken": 1,
    "categories": [
      {
        "categoryLevel": 1,
        "id": "example-id",
        "parentId": "example-id"
      }
    ]
  },
  "code": 0,
  "msg": null,
  "ts": "0",
  "time": "2026-01-01 00:00:00",
  "cost": "-1",
  "traceId": null
}

Responses

Code	Description
200	HTTP request completed. Check JSON code; only 0 indicates business success or acceptance.
400	Request JSON or required API parameters are invalid.
401	API key is missing, invalid, or cannot be matched to a user.
5xx	API execution or upstream service failed.

Data source, freshness, and limitations

Source, freshness, coverage, rate limits, and estimation notes are not specified in this API definition unless they appear in the request or response field documentation above. Do not assume official marketplace data or real-time freshness when it is not explicitly documented.

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MCP

Use the MCP endpoint when an agent needs to discover and call API tools with JSON-RPC.

GET /api/skill-api/v1/mcp

POST /api/skill-api/v1/mcp
Authorization: Bearer nk-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Content-Type: application/json

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{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "tool-call-1",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "nexscope_etsy_category_search",
    "arguments": {
      "pageSize": 1,
      "keyword": "phone case",
      "page": 1
    }
  }
}

Online test

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Endpoint

https://api.nexscope.ai/api/skill-api/v1/skills/etsy-category-search/run

MCP method

nexscope_etsy_category_search

API key*

JSON payload*

cURL

curl -X POST \
  https://api.nexscope.ai/api/skill-api/v1/skills/etsy-category-search/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer nk-..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "pageSize": 1, "keyword": "phone case", "page": 1 }'

Response

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