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Amazon Marketplace Intelligence

Amazon Category Lookup MCP Tool

Supports exact parent-node browsing and label-based category search.

MCP tool name
nexscope_amazon_category_lookup
Legacy MCP endpoint
/api/skill-api/v1/mcp
JSON-RPC method
tools/call

Authentication

Send the user API key as a bearer token on every MCP JSON-RPC request.

Authorization: Bearer nk-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

If authentication is missing or invalid, ask the user to open API Access and copy a valid key before calling this tool.

Call this MCP tool

Use tools/call with the MCP tool name below. The arguments object should match the table on this page.

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "amazon-category-lookup-1",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "nexscope_amazon_category_lookup",
    "arguments": {
      "operation": "lookup",
      "nodeId": "0",
      "marketId": "1"
    }
  }
}
Legacy endpoint
POST /api/skill-api/v1/mcp
Canonical detail URL
https://www.nexscope.ai/mcp-map/amazon-category-lookup

Arguments

NameTypeRequiredMeaning
operationstringoptional
lookup (default) or like.
Example: lookup
marketIdstringoptional
Amazon marketplace or site identifier.
Example: 1
nodeIdstringoptional
Parent category node identifier.
Example: 0
tablestringoptional
Optional upstream category table selector.
Example: nodes
nodeLabelstringoptional
Category label required by operation=like.
Example: Electronics

Response fields

Treat structuredContent as the programmatic API response payload.

NameTypeRequiredDescription
dataanyrequired
Data value used by this API operation.
codeintegerrequired
0 means accepted or successful; nonzero is a platform error.
msgstring | nullrequired
Msg value used by this API operation.
tsstringrequired
Epoch milliseconds.
timestringrequired
Server local time: yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.
coststringrequired
Elapsed milliseconds, never credits; -1 outside web requests.
traceIdstring | nullrequired
Trace id value used by this API operation.

Any of option 1

NameTypeRequiredDescription
dataobjectrequired
Data value used by this API operation.
data.totalintegeroptional
Number of returned category nodes.
Example: 1
data.dataarrayoptional
Amazon category node records.
Example: []
data.data[].nodeIdstringoptional
Category node identifier.
Example: 172282
data.data[].nodeLabelstringoptional
Category label.
Example: Electronics
data.data[].parentNodeIdstringoptional
Parent node identifier.
Example: 0
data.costTokenintegeroptional
Provider-reported token cost.
Example: 150
data.typestringoptional
Provider-specific render or payload type.
Example: null
data.titlestringoptional
Provider-specific response title.
Example: null
data.sourceTypestringoptional
Provider-specific source platform type.
Example: null
data.sourceToolstringoptional
Provider-specific source tool name.
Example: null
data.costTimeintegeroptional
Execution time reported by the upstream provider.
Example: null
data.pageintegeroptional
Current page returned by the upstream provider.
Example: null
data.pageSizeintegeroptional
Page size returned by the upstream provider.
Example: null
data.pageItemCountintegeroptional
Item count on the current page returned by the upstream provider.
Example: null
data.totalPageintegeroptional
Total page count returned by the upstream provider.
Example: null
data.dataSnapshotMonthstringoptional
Data snapshot month returned by the upstream provider.
Example: null

Any of option 2

NameTypeRequiredDescription
datanullrequired
Data value used by this API operation.

Examples

Example arguments

{
  "operation": "lookup",
  "nodeId": "0",
  "marketId": "1"
}

Example structuredContent

{
  "data": {
    "total": 1,
    "data": [
      {
        "nodeId": "172282",
        "nodeLabel": "Electronics",
        "parentNodeId": "0"
      }
    ],
    "costToken": 150
  },
  "code": 0,
  "msg": null,
  "ts": "0",
  "time": "2026-01-01 00:00:00",
  "cost": "-1",
  "traceId": null
}