Shopapi provides a unified REST API that lets developers add product search, discovery, cart, and checkout features to any online store without dealing with multiple e‑commerce integrations. The API supports natural‑language and image queries across a catalog of over 220 million items, returning real‑time pricing, availability, and affiliate links in fast JSON responses.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Problem
Developers building shopping experiences or AI agents often must integrate with multiple e‑commerce platforms, each with its own APIs, data formats, and rate limits, making it time‑consuming and costly to provide consistent product search, discovery, cart, and checkout functionality.
Solution
Shopapi offers a single RESTful API that abstracts the underlying e‑commerce infrastructure, allowing developers to add search, discovery, cart, and checkout capabilities to any online store with a unified JSON interface. The service indexes over one million products from more than 50,000 brands and supports natural‑language and image‑based queries across a catalog of 220 million items. Responses include matched offers, real‑time pricing, availability, and affiliate‑ready links, enabling immediate monetization. With an average response time of 38 ms and a free tier for initial integration, developers can focus on building agentic experiences while Shopapi handles scaling, data consistency, and future webhook extensions.
Target Audience
Primary customers are developers and product teams building AI shopping agents, recommendation engines, or custom e‑commerce front‑ends that require fast, unified access to product data across many brands.
Features
- Four core endpoints (search, lookup, cart, checkout) delivered through a single consistent REST API
- Natural‑language and image search across 220 M+ products with real‑time pricing and affiliate links
- Deep product lookup providing variants, stock levels, merchant details, and up‑to‑date pricing
- Fast JSON responses with an average latency of 38 ms, suitable for real‑time applications
- Built‑in monetization via affiliate‑ready URLs returned in every search result
- Free entry tier and scalable pricing model for growing usage