Capterra APIcapterra.com ↗
Access Capterra software categories, product details, user reviews, and search results via a structured API. Returns ratings, features, pros/cons, and more.
What is the Capterra API?
The Capterra API provides access to software discovery data across 5 endpoints, covering category listings, product details, user reviews, and keyword search. Use get_product_details to retrieve a product's overall rating, review count, description, and feature list, or call get_product_reviews to page through structured user reviews with pros, cons, and per-review ratings — no browser required.
No input parameters required.
curl -X GET 'https://api.parse.bot/scraper/7484701a-5337-4f49-9ab8-a28426c3bb24/get_software_categories' \ -H 'X-API-Key: $PARSE_API_KEY'
Retrieve a list of all software categories available on Capterra. Returns category names, URLs, and slugs. Each slug can be passed to get_category_products to list products in that category. No pagination; returns the full category tree in a single response.
No input parameters required.
{
"type": "object",
"fields": {
"categories": "array of category objects each containing name, url, and slug"
},
"sample": {
"data": {
"categories": [
{
"url": "https://www.capterra.com/performance-appraisal-software/",
"name": "Performance Management System",
"slug": "performance-appraisal"
},
{
"url": "https://www.capterra.com/human-resource-software/",
"name": "Human Resources",
"slug": "human-resource"
},
{
"url": "https://www.capterra.com/employee-scheduling-software/",
"name": "Employee Scheduling",
"slug": "employee-scheduling"
}
]
},
"status": "success"
}
}About the Capterra API
What the API Covers
The Capterra API exposes software product and review data organized around a category tree. get_software_categories returns the full list of categories as an array of objects containing name, url, and slug. Those slugs feed directly into get_category_products, which returns every product listed in that category — each with a name, numeric id, slug, and url. The id and slug from either of these endpoints are the two required inputs for the product-level endpoints.
Product Details and Features
get_product_details accepts a product_id and product_name (the URL slug) and returns a single product object: name, url, description, rating (out of 5, or null), review_count (or null), and a features array of strings. The features array reflects what is listed on the product page and may be empty for products with sparse listings.
Reviews and Search
get_product_reviews takes the same product_id and product_name inputs plus an optional page integer (defaulting to 1, returning up to 25 reviews per page). Each review object includes title, date, rating, pros, and cons. The search_software endpoint accepts a free-text query string and returns a flat array of matching products with the same name, id, slug, and url shape as category product results — useful for building lookup flows without knowing a category slug in advance.
The Capterra API is a managed, monitored endpoint for capterra.com — not a raw scraper you maintain. Every endpoint is automatically health-checked on a schedule, and when capterra.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 capterra.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.
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- Build a software comparison tool using product ratings and feature lists from get_product_details
- Aggregate user sentiment by collecting pros and cons text across paginated reviews via get_product_reviews
- Map the Capterra category tree with get_software_categories to power a software discovery directory
- Monitor review counts over time per product to detect spikes in user feedback activity
- Populate a CRM or internal knowledge base with software descriptions and ratings for vendor evaluation
- Run keyword searches with search_software to find products matching a client's requirements
- Compile category-level product inventories using get_category_products for market research reporting
| Tier | Price | Credits/month | Rate limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 200 | 5 req/min |
| Hobby | $30/mo | 1,000 | 20 req/min |
| Developer | $100/mo | 5,000 | 100 req/min |
| Team | $300/mo | 20,000 | 300 req/min |
| Company | $1,000/mo | 100,000 | 500 req/min |
Each endpoint has a fixed posted price per successful call — most fall between 1 and 10 credits — shown on this API's page before you run it. Exceeding the rate limit returns a 429 response. Authenticate with the X-API-Key header.