Dahua Security APIdahuasecurity.com ↗
Search Dahua security products and browse the full category tree via API. Returns models, specs, datasheets, firmware, manuals, and images.
What is the Dahua Security API?
The Dahua Security API provides 2 endpoints for querying dahuasecurity.com product data. The search_products endpoint returns paginated results with up to 15 fields per product — including model numbers, descriptions, thumbnail and full images, datasheets, manuals, firmware files, and drawings — while get_categories exposes the complete navigation hierarchy for products and solutions.
curl -X GET 'https://api.parse.bot/scraper/6fcb8a62-c9cc-44dc-9f3a-f876e50ad974/search_products?page=1&keyword=IPC' \ -H 'X-API-Key: $PARSE_API_KEY'
Typed, relational, agent-ready
A generated client with real types, enums, and the links between objects — the structure a flat JSON response can't carry. Autocompletes in your editor and reads cleanly to coding agents.
- Fully typed · autocompletes
- Objects link to objects
- Typed errors & pagination
Typed Python client. Set up the SDK in your uv project, then pull this API’s typed client:
uv add parse-sdk uv run parse init uv run parse add --marketplace dahuasecurity-com-api
uv run parse add --marketplace pulls a pinned snapshot of this canonical API — it won’t change underneath you. To customize it, subscribe and swap to your own copy.
from parse_apis.dahua_security_products_api import Dahua, Product, Category
client = Dahua()
# Search for network cameras
for product in client.searchresults.search(keyword="PTZ", limit=3):
print(product.name, product.model, product.description)
# Browse the full category tree
for category in client.categories.list():
print(category.menu_id, category.menu_name, category.nav_linkurl)
Search for Dahua security products by keyword. Returns paginated results including product models, descriptions, images, datasheets, manuals, firmware, and drawings. Each page returns up to 6 results. Product names may contain HTML highlight tags around the matched keyword.
| Param | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| page | integer | Page number for pagination. Each page returns up to 6 results. |
| keywordrequired | string | Search keyword for product lookup (e.g. 'IPC', 'NVR', 'PTZ', 'camera') |
{
"type": "object",
"fields": {
"page": "integer - current page number",
"limit": "integer - results per page",
"total": "integer - total number of matching results",
"keyword": "string - search keyword used",
"products": "array of product objects with id, name, model, description, thumbnail, images, datasheets, manuals, firmware, drawings, and url"
},
"sample": {
"data": {
"page": 1,
"limit": 6,
"total": 1133,
"keyword": "IPC",
"products": [
{
"id": "155012",
"url": "https://www.dahuasecurity.com/Products/All-Products/Network-Cameras/WizMind-5-Series/Others/IPC-HDBW5541R-ASE=S3",
"name": "<font color=\"red\">IPC</font>-HDBW5541R-ASE",
"model": "DH-IPC-HDBW5541R-ASE",
"images": [
"https://material.dahuasecurity.com/uploads/cpq/prm-os-srv-res/smart/formal/Product/HQ/1_0_01_04_40414/ProductImage/1_0_01_04_40414_337210722_crop.png"
],
"manuals": [
{
"url": "https://materialfile.dahuasecurity.com/uploads/cpq/54257/user_manual/Dahua_Network_Camera_Web_3.0_Operation_Manual_V2.1.8.pdf",
"name": "Dahua Network Camera Web 3.0_Operation Manual_V2.1.8"
}
],
"drawings": [
{
"url": "https://materialfile.dahuasecurity.com/uploads/cpq/86558/drawings/1_0_01_04_46595_878481402.pdf",
"name": "IPC-HDBW5541R-ASE_INSTALLATION_METHOD_EN"
}
],
"firmware": [
{
"url": "https://materialfile.dahuasecurity.com/uploads/cpq/68937/firmware/DH_IPC-HX5XXX-single-Riemann_MultiLang_PN_Stream4_V3.142.0000000.12.R.260427.zip",
"name": "DH_IPC-HX5XXX-single-Riemann_MultiLang_PN_Stream4_V3.142.0000000.12.R.260427"
}
],
"thumbnail": "https://material.dahuasecurity.com/uploads/cpq/prm-os-srv-res/smart/formal/Product/HQ/1_0_01_04_40414/ProductImage/1_0_01_04_40414_400556404-Black_crop_thumb.png",
"datasheets": [
{
"url": "https://materialfile.dahuasecurity.com/uploads/cpq/prm-os-srv-res/smart/datasheetzipfiles/IPC-HDBW5541R-ASE_S3_datasheet_20250311.pdf",
"name": "IPC-HDBW5541R-ASE_S3_datasheet_20250311"
}
],
"description": "5MP IR Fixed-focal Dome WizMind Network Camera"
}
]
},
"status": "success"
}
}About the Dahua Security API
Search Products
The search_products endpoint accepts a required keyword string and an optional page integer. Each page returns up to 6 product objects. Each product object includes id, name, model, description, thumbnail, images (array), datasheets, manuals, firmware, drawings, and a url pointing to the product page. The response envelope also includes total (total matching results), limit, and the keyword echoed back. This makes it straightforward to build paginated search UIs or iterate through all results for a given query like IPC, NVR, PTZ, or camera.
Browse Category Tree
The get_categories endpoint takes no parameters and returns the complete navigation tree from Dahua's website. The top-level array covers major nodes such as Products, Solutions, and Support, each with nested children arrays. Each category object carries menu_id, menu_name, and nav_linkurl. This tree reflects the full product and solution hierarchy and is useful for building category browsers, mapping product families, or seeding search terms for use with search_products.
Data Coverage
The product data returned by search_products includes direct links to downloadable assets (datasheets, manuals, firmware, drawings), making the API useful for procurement tools, compliance checks, or integration with product information management systems. Coverage is limited to content published on dahuasecurity.com — regional variants or products exclusive to other Dahua regional portals are not guaranteed to appear.
The Dahua Security API is a managed, monitored endpoint for dahuasecurity.com — not a raw scraper you maintain. Every endpoint is automatically health-checked on a schedule, and when dahuasecurity.com changes and a check fails, the API is automatically queued for repair and re-verified. It is built to keep working as the site underneath it changes.
This isn't an official dahuasecurity.com API — it's an independent, maintained REST wrapper over public data. Where the source has no official API (or only a limited one), Parse gives you a stable contract over a source that never promised one, and keeps it current. Need a new endpoint or field? You can revise it yourself in plain English and the agent rebuilds it against the live site in minutes — contributing the change back to the shared API is free.
Will this API break when the source site changes?+
Is this an official API from the source site?+
Can I fix or extend this API myself if I need a new endpoint or field?+
What happens if I call an endpoint that has an issue?+
- Build a product lookup tool that lets security integrators search by keyword (e.g. 'PTZ', 'NVR') and retrieve model specs and datasheets.
- Automate firmware version tracking across a Dahua product catalog using the
firmwarefield returned per product. - Populate a product comparison page using
name,model,description, andimagesfrom search results. - Map Dahua's full product hierarchy from
get_categoriesto build a browsable category tree or site mirror. - Feed a procurement system with datasheet and manual URLs from
datasheetsandmanualsfields for approved device lists. - Monitor product catalog changes by periodically querying
search_productsfor specific model families and diffing results. - Cross-reference Dahua product models against CVE databases by extracting
modelvalues at scale.
| Tier | Price | Credits/month | Rate limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 100 | 5 req/min |
| Hobby | $30/mo | 1,000 | 20 req/min |
| Developer | $100/mo | 5,000 | 100 req/min |
One credit = one API call regardless of which marketplace API you call. Exceeding the rate limit returns a 429 response. Authenticate with the X-API-Key header.
Does Dahua have an official developer API for its product catalog?+
What does the `search_products` endpoint return beyond basic product names?+
id, name, model, description, thumbnail, an images array, and arrays for datasheets, manuals, firmware, and drawings, plus a url to the product page. Pagination is controlled with the page parameter; the response includes total so you can calculate how many pages exist for a given keyword.How does the `get_categories` endpoint structure its response?+
categories array where each object has menu_id, menu_name, nav_linkurl, and a children array of the same shape. The tree reflects Dahua's top-level navigation nodes (Products, Solutions, Support) and their nested sub-categories. There is no filtering parameter — the full tree is always returned.Can I retrieve detailed product specifications or pricing through this API?+
Is search pagination reliable for large result sets?+
limit of 6 results, and the total field tells you the full match count. For very broad keywords the total may be large. One known constraint is that Dahua's website only surfaces a finite window of results for any query, so extremely high page numbers may return empty or truncated results even when total suggests more pages exist.