# Amazon Creators API (slim)

> Amazon's product catalogue API for Amazon Associates affiliates, replacing Product Advertising API 5.0. It searches and looks up products, prices and variations across 22 Amazon stores and returns tagged affiliate links. It cannot place orders.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-creators-api.md (~7,300 tokens) · this version ~1,480 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-creators-api.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-creators-api
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-14

**D · 48.7/100 · rank #862 of 1076 · #2 in Shopping, returns & refunds · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: Read-only product search and lookup across 22 Amazon stores, with field selection, typed error reasons and documented rate limits. It cannot place or follow orders, so a person buys through the affiliate link. Access needs an accepted Associates account with 10 qualifying sales in 30 days, and the Agent Terms require agents to identify themselves.

## Facts

- Kind: HTTP API · vendor: Amazon.com Services LLC · category: Shopping, returns & refunds · legal entity: Amazon.com Services LLC · provenance 76/100
- Endpoint: `https://creatorsapi.amazon/catalog/v1` (HTTP)
- Auth: OAuth · pricing: Free · x402: no · licence: Proprietary service under the Amazon Associates Program Operating Agreement and its IP Licence for each locale
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Operations: SearchItems (up to 10 items a page, itemPage 1 to 10, filters for brand, price, condition, availability, delivery flags and sort), GetItems (up to 10 ASINs), GetVariations, GetBrowseNodes (up to 10 IDs)
- Endpoint: https://creatorsapi.amazon/catalog/v1/<operation>, one endpoint for all regions
- Credentials: OAuth 2.0 client credentials from Login with Amazon. Credential version 3.1 (NA), 3.2 (EU) or 3.3 (FE) picks the token endpoint. Two applications per store, two credentials per application
- Rate limits: 1 TPS and 8,640 TPD for the first 30 days, then one TPD per 5 US cents and one TPS per USD 4,320 of shipped revenue referred through the API in the previous 30 days, up to 10 TPS. 429 ThrottleException when exceeded
- Errors: JSON with type, message and reason (for example InvalidPartnerTag, AssociateNotEligible). 400, 401, 403, 404, 429 and 500. Partial results in HTTP 200 carry an errors array
- Caching: Price data and BrowseNodeInfo for 1 hour, other resources for 1 day, under the licence. Customer information derived from Amazon must not be cached
- SDKs: Node.js, Python, PHP and Java as downloads. Changelog 1.0.0 (15 December 2025) to 1.3.0 (21 August 2026, partnerTag now required on SearchItems)
- Stores: 22 Amazon stores including the US, UK, Germany, France, Japan, India, Brazil, Australia and the United Arab Emirates

- Scores: Reliability 45, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 50, Agent ergonomics 85, Security & auth 48, Payments & pricing 10, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 41, Transparency & trust 52 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, No status page for the Creators API was found in the documentation (0 of 20). · Schema & documentation, No public OpenAPI or other machine-readable description was found. · Agent ergonomics, The resources parameter returns only the fields requested, and the best practices recommend it to cut payload size (22 of 25). · Security & auth, OAuth 2.0 client credentials with tokens that last one hour. · Payments & pricing, No x402, MPP or L402 (0 of 40). · Maintenance & community, The latest dated change is SDK 1.3.0 on 21 August 2026, 54 days ago (20 of 30). · Transparency & trust, Closed service with published terms.
- Sources: 16, open questions: 7, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: shopping.search, shopping.prices, shopping.affiliate
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/amazon-creators-api.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/amazon-creators-api.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-creators-api from a page on amazon.com or one of its subdomains, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

1. Send x-marketplace as a header and marketplace and partnerTag in the body on every call
2. Cache the access token for its 3,600 seconds and share it across processes
3. Request only the resources the task needs, and use offersV2 for prices, because the older price resource is gone
4. Set the user agent to Agent/<name> as the Associates Agent Terms require
5. Hand purchases to the person through the returned detailPageURL without editing its parameters

## Connect

```bash
curl -X POST https://creatorsapi.amazon/catalog/v1/searchItems -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "x-marketplace: www.amazon.com" -d '{"keywords": "headphones", "partnerTag": "yourtag-20", "marketplace": "www.amazon.com", "resources": ["images.primary.small", "itemInfo.title"]}'
```
Full config and headless snippets are in the full page. Through letme (picks today, calling later): https://letme.dev/amazon-creators-api

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