# Target Reviews API (https://www.socialcrawl.dev/platforms/target/reviews)

> Returns written customer reviews for a Target product, 10 per page, each with the full review text, star rating, reviewer nickname, submission date, helpful-vote count, verified-purchase flag, and any reviewer photos. Pages do not overlap and the review total is exact, so a full crawl is deterministic: pass the returned cursor back until has_more is false. Page size is fixed by the upstream at 10 and cannot be raised. If you want the star distribution rather than the review text, call GET /v1/target/product instead and read product.ext.rating_distribution, which is one call rather than one per ten reviews.

TL;DR: `GET /v1/target/reviews` costs 5 credits per call and returns SocialCrawl's unified JSON schema. Single x-api-key auth, 100 free credits on signup.

## Parameters

| Parameter | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `tcin` | yes | 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. |
| `page` | no | Page number, starting at 1. Prefer the universal cursor parameter. |

## Code example

```bash
curl "https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/target/reviews?tcin=92146817" \
  -H "x-api-key: sc_YOUR_API_KEY"
```

## FAQ

### How many reviews come back per call?

Ten. Target fixes the page size and exposes no way to raise it, so a product with 800 reviews takes 80 calls to drain. The exact review total is returned on the first page, so you always know the cost up front.

### Do consecutive pages repeat reviews?

No. Target review pages are cleanly separated with no overlap between them, which is unusual for retail review feeds. Pass the returned cursor back until has_more is false and every row you receive is new.

### What is in a review row?

Review text, star rating out of 5, reviewer nickname, submission date, helpful-vote count, verified-purchase flag, any reviewer photos, and the product TCIN as a join key back to the product endpoint. Target reviews have no individual permalink, so the url field is null.

### Is there a cheaper way to get just the rating breakdown?

Yes. Call the product endpoint and read ext.rating_distribution, which carries the 1 to 5 star counts in a single call rather than one call per ten reviews. Use the reviews endpoint when you need the review text itself.

### What happens when a product has no reviews?

You get a 200 with an empty item list and a total of zero, and the credit is refunded. Empty results are never billed on any SocialCrawl endpoint.

See the full Target API: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/platforms/target

## Pricing

- Standard endpoints: 1 credit per call
- Advanced endpoints: 5 credits per call
- Premium endpoints: 10 credits per call
- 100 free credits on signup, no credit card required. Cached responses cost 0 credits. Credit packs never expire.
- Full pricing: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/pricing

## Explore with AI

Questions this API answers, phrased for an AI assistant:

- How to collect Target customer reviews with an API
- How many reviews does the Target API return per call?
- Do Target review API pages overlap?