POST

TikTok Shop Categories API

/v1/run/tiktok_shop.categories

List the TikTok Shop category tree for a market: top-level categories with ids, slugs, and images, each with its child categories.

Category shopRequests / mo -Routing 1 lane · no failover

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Pricing

One price, in dollars

pay per request · no subscription · fallbacks added as the catalog grows

Request

Gateway request

discovered operation

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Router

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Providers · 1

Tiger- served- uptime- p50---$1.20/1k reqflat

↳ One lane serves this endpoint today, so a failed call has nowhere to fail over to. Failed attempts are never billed. Uptime, latency and traffic are measured through the gateway, last 30 days.

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regionenumCountry code of the TikTok Shop market whose category tree to list. Only US and VN publish a category tree.

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Sample response

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{
  "data": {
    "categories": [
      {
        "categoryId": "general",
        "children": [
          {
            "categoryId": "general",
            "isLeaf": true,
            "name": "Example title",
            "slug": "alex_rivera"
          }
        ],
        "image": "https://example.com/image.jpg",
        "isLeaf": true,
        "name": "Example title",
        "slug": "alex_rivera"
      }
    ]
  },
  "found": true
}

Response interface

interface TiktokShopCategoriesResponse {
  data: {
    categories: {
      categoryId: string;
      children?: {
        categoryId: string;
        isLeaf?: boolean;
        name: string;
        slug?: string;
      }[];
      image?: string;
      isLeaf?: boolean;
      name: string;
      slug?: string;
    }[];
  } | null;
  found: boolean;
}

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Reference

Request, response, and price

Last verified 2026-08-23 · uptime and latency measured over 30d

POST /v1/run/tiktok_shop.categories

curl -X POST https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/tiktok_shop.categories \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ANYAPI_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"region":"US"}'

Field	Type	Example value
Request body
region	enum	"US"Country code of the TikTok Shop market whose category tree to list. Only US and VN publish a category tree.
Response
data	object
data.categories	object[]	Top-level TikTok Shop categories for the market, each with its child categories. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
data.categories[].categoryId	string	TikTok Shop category id. Pass this to tiktok_shop.category_products. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
data.categories[].children	object[]	Child categories one level down.
data.categories[].children[].categoryId	string	TikTok Shop category id.
data.categories[].children[].isLeaf	boolean	True when the category has no children.
data.categories[].children[].name	string	Display name of the category.
data.categories[].children[].slug	string	URL slug of the category.
data.categories[].image	string	Category tile image URL.
data.categories[].isLeaf	boolean	True when the category has no children.
data.categories[].name	string	Display name of the category. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
data.categories[].slug	string	URL slug of the category.
found	boolean
Price
Price per request	USD	$0.0012
Price /1k req	USD	$1.20

FAQ

About the TikTok Shop Categories API

The AnyAPI TikTok Shop Categories API returns TikTok Shop categories data as normalized JSON from one POST call to /v1/run/tiktok_shop.categories. List the TikTok Shop category tree for a market: top-level categories with ids, slugs, and images, each with its child categories. AnyAPI returns one normalized schema whichever source serves it. It costs from $1.20 per 1,000 requests, in US dollars with no subscription and no monthly minimum.

It costs from $1.20 per 1,000 requests, in US dollars with no subscription and no monthly minimum. You fund one USD wallet, each call draws it down, and a failed request costs $0.

List the TikTok Shop category tree for a market: top-level categories with ids, slugs, and images, each with its child categories. The response is normalized JSON with the same envelope every AnyAPI endpoint returns, so parsing a second endpoint is a change of URL and nothing else.

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