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Target Scraper API

Target API: 5 endpoints covering full product detail and customer reviews, keyed by TCIN. Every product returns price, the complete 1-5 star breakdown, image gallery, colour and size variations, and both the ratings count and the written-review count as separate honest numbers. Review pages never repeat a row. Same canonical shapes as our Amazon, Walmart, and Google Shopping endpoints.

TL;DR

The Target API by SocialCrawl returns Target data as structured JSON — 5 endpoints behind one x-api-key, from 1 credit per call. It shares one unified schema with 45 other platforms, so the same client code works everywhere.

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Type a real handle, run a real request, see the JSON SocialCrawl returns. No signup, no key — same response shape you get in production.

Try the Target Product API

See real data before writing a single line

GET/v1/target/product

Target catalogue id (TCIN), the numeric id at the end of a target.com product URL: target.com/p/<name>/-/A-92148487 is TCIN 92148487. Target rolls a colour or size variant up to its parent product, so the id returned by GET /v1/target/product can differ from the one you sent; the id you asked for is preserved at product.ext.requested_id.

Endpoints

What data does the Target API return?

Every endpoint returns structured JSON in a unified envelope. Computed fields such as engagement rate and content category are included only where the endpoint supports them and the required source inputs are present.

Last updated July 2026

Maintained by the SocialCrawl team, reviewed July 2026

Productadvanced

Get a Target product by TCIN

Reviewsadvanced

Get Target product reviews

Categoryadvanced

Browse Target products in a category

Categoriesstandard

List the Target category taxonomy

Storesstandard

Find Target stores near a location

What you get

What Target data can you get?

Every Target endpoint uses the same response envelope, so one parser handles the whole platform. These are fields returned by current public responses, subject to each endpoint's documented cache window.

Fields you get back in a Target response include:

  • id
  • url
  • title
  • description
  • seller
  • brand
  • price.current
  • price.original
  • price.currency
  • rating.average
  • rating.count
  • image_urls
  • availability
  • reviews_count
  • features
  • variations
  • ext.rating_distribution
  • review.id
  • review.entity_id
  • review.url
  • review.title
  • review.text
  • review.rating
  • review.author
Quickstart

How to scrape Target in 3 steps

No proxies, no headless browsers, no login sessions. Send one authenticated GET request and read structured JSON back.

  1. 1

    Get a free API key

    Create an account and copy your key from the dashboard. Signup includes 100 free credits, and no card is required.

  2. 2

    Call the Product endpoint

    Send a GET request with your key in the x-api-key header. Here is the full Target Product request:

    curl -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
      "https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/target/product?tcin=92148487"
  3. 3

    Read the unified JSON

    The response comes back in the shared SocialCrawl schema. Where the endpoint supports them and the required source inputs are present, fields such as engagement_rate and content_category are filled in too. Your client can rely on the shared envelope while treating enriched fields as optional.

Requirements and limits

Requirements and limits

Everything you need to know before your first Target call.

Authentication
One API key, passed in the x-api-key request header. No OAuth flow, no app review, and no per-platform credentials to manage.
Pagination
List endpoints return a next_cursor and a has_more flag. Pass the cursor back to page through results, with the same contract on every platform.
Credits
Calls start at 1 credits and are deducted per request. Every account starts with 100 free credits, and credits never expire.
Rate limits
There are no artificial rate limits. Your credit balance is the only throttle, so you can run requests concurrently as fast as you need.
Pricing

How much does the Target API cost?

Simple credit-based pricing with no subscription. You pay per call, and the exact credit cost of every Target endpoint is listed below.

EndpointCredits per call
Product5 credits
Reviews5 credits
Category5 credits
Categories1 credit
Stores1 credit

Every account starts with 100 free credits, and no card is required.

At credit-pack pricing that works out to roughly £0.002 to £0.03 per call, and credits never expire.

Developer First

How do you scrape social media data in seconds?

The fastest social media scraping API for developers. Scrape profiles, posts, comments, and analytics from 46 platforms covering 10B+ monthly active users.

One schema, every platform

Query 46 platforms with identical response structures. Write your integration once.

Computed fields, not just scraped

When an endpoint supports these metrics and the source provides the required inputs, the normalized record includes engagement_rate, estimated_reach, content_category, and language — ready to use.

See your data before you code

Visual Data Explorer — paste any URL, get rich result cards, sortable tables, CSV export.

import requests

response = requests.get(
    'https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/tiktok/profile',
    params={'handle': 'charlidamelio'},
    headers={'x-api-key': 'sc_YOUR_API_KEY'}
)
data = response.json()
[ .JSON ]
{
  "success": true,
  "platform": "tiktok",
  "data": {
    "author": {
      "username": "charlidamelio",
      "followers": 152400000
    },
    "engagement": {
      "likes": 12400000000,
      "engagement_rate": 0.087
    },
    "metadata": {
      "language": "en",
      "content_category": "lifestyle"
    }
  }
}
+ 46 platforms
One API, 46 platforms

How does SocialCrawl handle 46 different platforms?

Social media scraping is hard. Schema normalization, authentication, rate limits, pagination — we handle it all before your data arrives.

One schema, every platform

Write once, query them all.

46 platforms return 46 different JSON shapes. We normalize every response into one consistent structure.

Ready-to-use metrics

Metrics ready before you ask.

Normalized records include supported metrics such as engagement rate, estimated reach, content category, and language when the required source inputs are available.

Consistent pagination

One cursor, every platform.

Every platform paginates differently. We give you one consistent cursor-based system.

Freshness you control

Fresh when it matters. Free on repeat.

Cache misses fetch current public data. Identical requests are cached for 2 to 30 minutes by data type and cost 0 credits on a hit; send Cache-Control: no-cache for a billed refresh.

Things you'll never build

Auth, proxies, and rate limits — handled.

Platform authentication, IP rotation, rate limit management — abstracted away. Just send a GET request.

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Reviews

What developers say

Rated 4.9 out of 5 from 200 developer reviews
The unified schema saved us weeks of integration work. One parser handles every platform.
Alex Chen, Full-Stack Developer
Our agents process social data from 46 platforms with zero platform-specific logic — one schema, end to end.
Sarah Kim, AI Engineer, AgentFlow
I paste an influencer's URL and get everything — followers, engagement rate, content categories — without touching code.
James Rivera, Marketing Director
We switched from building our own scrapers. SocialCrawl handles the hard stuff, we focus on insights.
Maria Santos, CTO, DataPulse
The computed fields alone — engagement_rate, estimated_reach, content_category — saved us an entire data pipeline.
David Park, Lead Data Scientist
Comparison

How does SocialCrawl compare to DIY Target.com scraping for Target data?

Same Target data, two very different paths. Auth, rate limits, schema, and cost — side by side.

Setup

SocialCrawl
One GET with an API key
DIY Target.com scraping
Headless browser, proxy pool, and a parser for Target's GraphQL payload

Product payload

SocialCrawl
Clean canonical JSON, roughly 3 KB
DIY Target.com scraping
100 KB of raw GraphQL you filter yourself

Review pagination

SocialCrawl
Cursor that terminates exactly at the last page
DIY Target.com scraping
Manual page walking with your own duplicate detection

Blocked requests

SocialCrawl
Retried upstream, and never billed if they fail
DIY Target.com scraping
Your problem, and your cost

Cross-retailer parsing

SocialCrawl
Same shapes as Amazon, Walmart, and Google Shopping
DIY Target.com scraping
One bespoke parser per retailer
Quick answers

How much does Target scraping cost?

SocialCrawl uses credit-based pricing: you pay per API call, and most Target endpoints cost just a few credits. Every account starts with 100 free credits — no subscriptions, no compute units, no credit card required.

See pricing

Is Target scraping legal?

SocialCrawl returns publicly available Target data. Courts have generally upheld scraping public data — most notably in hiQ v. LinkedIn — but compliance depends on your use case and jurisdiction. You are responsible for following applicable laws and platform terms.

Glossary

Common Target scraping terms

The phrases developers search for when they need Target data, and what each one means with SocialCrawl.

Target scraper API
A Target scraper API returns Target data as structured JSON without you running any scraping infrastructure. SocialCrawl handles the proxies, parsing, and format changes, so you call an endpoint and get clean fields back. Pricing starts at 1 credits per call.
Target data API
A Target data API is a programmatic way to read public Target data on demand. SocialCrawl exposes 5 Target endpoints behind one x-api-key, all sharing the same unified schema, so your integration never has to change per platform.
scrape Target
To scrape Target is to extract its public data programmatically instead of by hand. With SocialCrawl you scrape Target by sending a single authenticated request, and the response is normalised into the same JSON shape used across every platform.
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FAQ

Have a question? We got answers

Find answers to frequently asked questions about SocialCrawl's API, pricing, and capabilities.

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What data can I get from the SocialCrawl Target API?
Full product detail (title, brand, description, highlight bullets, current and regular price, average rating with its complete 1-5 star distribution, written-review count, image gallery, colour and size variations, and stock status) plus written customer reviews with text, rating, reviewer nickname, date, helpful votes, verified-purchase flag, and photos.
Where do I find a Target TCIN?
It is the number at the end of any Target product URL. In target.com/p/beats-solo-buds-true-wireless-bluetooth-earbuds/-/A-92148487 the TCIN is 92148487. Pass it as the tcin parameter to either endpoint. Malformed ids are rejected before any credit is deducted.
Is there a Target keyword search endpoint?
No, and that is deliberate. Target's search surface returns at most 24 products, ignores the page parameter, and answers a query that matches nothing with 24 unrelated products, so there is no way to tell a real result from a miss. Shipping it would mean billing you for rows you did not ask for. Bring a TCIN, or use our universal search across sources.
Why did I get back a different TCIN than the one I sent?
Target rolls colour and size variants up to a parent product. Ask for a variant and you get the parent, whose payload describes the whole family. The id field always describes the payload you received, and ext.requested_id carries the id you asked for whenever the two differ, so nothing is lost.
How many reviews come back per call, and do pages overlap?
Ten per page, fixed by Target and not raisable. Pages never repeat a row and the review total is exact, so a full crawl is deterministic: pass the returned cursor back until has_more is false. If you only want the star breakdown, read ext.rating_distribution from the product endpoint instead, which is one call rather than one per ten reviews.
Why are the rating count and the review count different numbers?
They are different populations. The rating count is everyone who left a star rating; the review count is everyone who wrote review text, and it is the same population the reviews endpoint paginates over. On a typical product the first is two to three times the second. Both come straight from Target, and neither is an estimate.
Does Target pricing vary by store?
Not on this endpoint. Target's product surface reports the same price whatever store is queried, so we do not offer a store or ZIP parameter here and you should treat the price as national catalogue pricing. Walmart genuinely does vary by store, and our Walmart endpoints accept ZIP, state, and store id for exactly that reason.
Is scraping Target data legal?
SocialCrawl returns publicly available Target data and does not access private or login-gated content. Whether scraping fits your project depends on your use case and jurisdiction — you are responsible for complying with Target's terms of service and applicable data-protection laws such as GDPR and CCPA. This is general information, not legal advice.
Target scraping API vs the official Target API — what's the difference?
With SocialCrawl there is no app review or approval queue — sign up and call Target endpoints immediately with a single x-api-key. Responses share one unified schema with every other SocialCrawl platform, and credit-based pricing replaces per-platform quotas. Official APIs are still the right choice for posting and other write actions: SocialCrawl is read-only data.

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