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mercadolibre.cl APIwww.mercadolibre.cl ↗

Browse MercadoLibre Chile's product categories and discover available deals and offers with easy pagination through product listings. Search and explore products across different categories to find the best available offers on the platform.

Endpoints

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category_id*

MercadoLibre category ID (e.g. MLC1648 for Computación, MLC1051 for Celulares y Telefonía)…

→ api.parse.bot/scraper/af9b2125-dde7-4fe4-a0aa-8bb9a4b1bb82/<endpoint>

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curl -X GET 'https://api.parse.bot/scraper/af9b2125-dde7-4fe4-a0aa-8bb9a4b1bb82/get_category' \
  -H 'X-API-Key: $PARSE_API_KEY'

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Get category details including name, item count, path from root, and all child subcategories. Use this to navigate the category tree starting from root categories.

Input

Param	Type	Description
category_idrequired	string	MercadoLibre category ID (e.g. MLC1648 for Computación, MLC1051 for Celulares y Telefonía). Format: MLC followed by digits.

Response

{
  "type": "object",
  "fields": {
    "id": "string",
    "name": "string",
    "picture": "string",
    "permalink": "string",
    "total_items": "integer",
    "path_from_root": "array of category path objects with id and name",
    "children_categories": "array of subcategory objects with id, name, and total_items"
  },
  "sample": {
    "id": "MLC1648",
    "name": "Computación",
    "picture": "https://http2.mlstatic.com/storage/categories-api/images/f96f9ecc-dfe6-4cf9-a270-4c0cee23f868.png",
    "permalink": "https://www.mercadolibre.cl/c/computacion",
    "total_items": 2077146,
    "path_from_root": [
      {
        "id": "MLC1648",
        "name": "Computación"
      }
    ],
    "children_categories": [
      {
        "id": "MLC447778",
        "name": "Accesorios para PC Gaming",
        "total_items": 84123
      },
      {
        "id": "MLC430687",
        "name": "Notebooks y Accesorios",
        "total_items": 358895
      }
    ]
  }
}

About the mercadolibre.cl API

The mercadolibre.cl API on Parse exposes 3 endpoints for the publicly available data on www.mercadolibre.cl. Calls return JSON over HTTPS and are billed per successful response.

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