# ScopeAPI Amazon Categories

> ScopeAPI Amazon Categories is a paid API for AI agents from scopeapipay.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.25/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Retrieves the list of Amazon product categories available for e-commerce data queries

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://scopeapipay.vercel.app/api/amazon/categories
- Price: $0.25/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/scopeapi-amazon-categories-2b864379
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_TvOPAH5iPRrl2mQaCC_E6

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability scopeapi-amazon-categories-2b864379
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up all the Amazon product categories available through ScopeAPI so I can see what departments I can search through for my e-commerce market research?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to discover or enumerate the full taxonomy of Amazon product categories before making more specific product or market queries. Prefer this as a first step to understand what category scopes are available before filtering deeper product intelligence queries.

## Known failure modes

- 402 Payment Required if USDC micropayment not provided or insufficient
- Empty or partial category list if the upstream Amazon data source is unavailable
- Malformed response if the properties filter parameter is invalid
- Timeout if the ScopeAPI backend is slow or overloaded

## How this service works

37 paid REST endpoints: Facebook social & ads intelligence, Amazon e-commerce data, job market intelligence. Pay per call via x402 micropayments (USDC on Base).

## Output

A JSON object containing a data field with the list of Amazon product categories and a source field labeled 'ScopeAPI'. Categories likely include department-level taxonomy items such as Electronics, Clothing, Home & Kitchen, etc.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "data": {},
  "source": "ScopeAPI"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/scopeapi-amazon-categories-2b864379/health.json
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