Real-time stock
Live availability on demand, with a freshness window you control.
02 / Features — live product data
An instrument for product data, not another scraping project.
Product snapshot
Title, price, and attributes returned structured in a single call.
Bulk in one request
Batch many items per call, deduplicated with an idempotency key.
Usage & credits
Read remaining credits and recent outcomes straight from the API.
Cache-aware reads
Trade freshness for speed per request with a maxAgeS control.
Single-header auth
One token in one header. No SDK lock-in, no session dance.
03 / Sample requests & responses
See the surface. Three endpoints, real payloads.
Request
- POST /v1/scrape HTTP/1.1
- Host: api.productinformationapi.com
- Authorization: $PIA_API_TOKEN
- Content-Type: application/json
- {
- "source": "amazon_gb",
- "method": "checkStock",
- "externalId": "B0EXAMPLE1",
- "maxAgeS": 120
- }
Response · 200
{
"requestId": "req_b3f9c2",
"source": "amazon_gb",
"externalId": "B0EXAMPLE1",
"inStock": true,
"price": { "amount": 24.99, "currency": "GBP" },
"cacheAgeS": 38,
"checkedAt": "2026-06-26T10:41:22Z"
}
HTTP/1.1 200 OKX-Credits-Remaining: 4,981
Request
- POST /v1/scrape/bulk HTTP/1.1
- Host: api.productinformationapi.com
- Authorization: $PIA_API_TOKEN
- Content-Type: application/json
- {
- "source": "amazon_gb",
- "method": "getProductInformation",
- "idempotencyKey": "bulk-2026-06-26",
- "items": [
- { "externalId": "B0EXAMPLE1" },
- { "externalId": "B0EXAMPLE2" }
- ]
- }
Response · 200
{
"requestId": "req_77ad10",
"count": 2,
"results": [
{ "externalId": "B0EXAMPLE1", "inStock": true, "title": "Wireless Earbuds" },
{ "externalId": "B0EXAMPLE2", "inStock": false, "title": "USB-C Charger 65W" }
]
}
HTTP/1.1 200 OKX-Credits-Remaining: 4,979
Request
- GET /v1/usage?recent=3 HTTP/1.1
- Host: api.productinformationapi.com
- Authorization: $PIA_API_TOKEN
Response · 200
{
"creditsRemaining": 4981,
"recent": [
{ "endpoint": "/v1/scrape", "charged": true },
{ "endpoint": "/v1/scrape/bulk", "charged": true },
{ "endpoint": "/v1/usage", "charged": false }
]
}
HTTP/1.1 200 OKX-Credits-Remaining: 4,981
04 / Pricing
Credit-based pricing. Pay for checks, not seats.
Starter
$49/mo
10,000 credits included.
- ✓Live stock checks
- ✓Product information
- —Bulk endpoint
- ✓Usage & credits API
- —Priority throughput
GrowthRecommended
$199/mo
75,000 credits included.
- ✓Live stock checks
- ✓Product information
- ✓Bulk endpoint
- ✓Usage & credits API
- ✓Priority throughput
Scale
Custom/volume
Committed-volume credit packaging.
- ✓Everything in Growth
- ✓Volume credit rates
- ✓Dedicated throughput
- ✓Implementation review
- ✓Priority support
05 / FAQ
Questions, answered briefly.
Live stock and availability, plus a structured product snapshot — title, price, and attributes — for a given source and item.
One scoped token in one header:
Authorization: $PIA_API_TOKEN. No login flow, no client SDK required.Major marketplaces are addressed by a
source id such as amazon_gb. Tell us the sources you need and we confirm coverage at onboarding.Per charged check. Read remaining credits and recent outcomes any time via
GET /v1/usage, or the X-Credits-Remaining response header.Yes.
POST /v1/scrape/bulk takes an array of items with an optional idempotency key for safe retries.Yes — the full machine-readable contract lives at
api.productinformationapi.com/openapi.json.