---
title: "List a Zalando market's top-level category navigation"
method: GET
path: "/zalando/categories"
tags: ["Zalando"]
---

# List a Zalando market's top-level category navigation

`GET /zalando/categories`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1`
- URL: `https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/zalando/categories`
- Auth: API key in header `x-api-key`

Returns a Zalando country storefront's live top-level category navigation, department by department. This is the discovery source for zalando-category's category parameter — category slugs are market-specific (each storefront uses its own local-language slug), so there is no fixed value space to hardcode; this endpoint returns the live values instead. market is required (there is no default storefront) and accepts 25 country storefronts — see zalando-markets for the full current list with domains. department optionally restricts the response to one of women, men, or kids; omitting it returns all three. Scope note: only the top-level nav tabs (e.g. Clothing, Shoes, Sports) are returned, not each tab's own hover-revealed mega-menu of sub-categories.

## Query parameters

- `market` 'at' | 'be' | 'ch' | 'cz' | 'de' | 'dk' | 'ee' | 'es' | 'fi' | 'fr' | 'gb' | 'hr' | 'hu' | 'ie' | 'it' | 'lt' | 'lu' | 'lv' | 'nl' | 'no' | 'pl' | 'ro' | 'se' | 'si' | 'sk', required
- `department` 'women' | 'men' | 'kids'

## Headers

- `x-api-key` string, required

## Response `200`

OK

- ZalandoCategoriesResponseDoc
  - `code` integer
  - `data` ZalandoCategoriesResponse
    - `categories` ZalandoCategoryTaxonomyEntry[]
      - `category` string
      - `department` string
      - `name` string
      - `url` string
    - `count` integer
    - `department` string
    - `fetched_at` string
    - `market` string
    - `source_urls` string[]
  - `msg` string

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad Request
- `429`: Too Many Requests
- `503`: Service Unavailable

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