Get Shein product search, prices and details with one API
Shein API returns live Shein data as clean JSON for shein The primary endpoint, search, returns matching records including goods id, name, price, list price and discount pct.
4 active endpoints, on 1 and 2 credit tiers.
- POST/shein/v1/search
- POST/shein/v1/product/detail
- POST/shein/v1/products_batch
- POST/shein/v1/price
What Shein endpoints does ReefAPI ship?
4 live read endpoints. Read-only data API: no writes, no account actions, no dashboard access on the target site.
Shein API
3 of 4 endpoints, ready to run
Search a storefront and get rich product cards: name, id, url, price and list price as numbers, discount, currency, images, colours, rating, review count, fit-percentages, category and stock. Up to ~120 rows a page.
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How the Shein API works
Shein is a normal ReefAPI surface — the same four rules that hold for every other engine on the key.
No OAuth app, no request signing, no per-site account. One key covers all 184 engines.
Every route is a POST with a JSON body. Parameters are validated against the published schema before anything is charged.
Credits, not seats. Failed and blocked calls are never charged, and cache hits cost nothing.
One envelope everywhere. meta carries latency_ms, record_count and the endpoint that answered.
Two calls turn a search phrase into priced products
search returns rich cards straight away — for most uses you never need a second call. When you want the full record for one product, product/detail keys off the goods_id search already gave you.
{"query": "summer dress", "market": "us", "limit": 100}results[] are full cards: price, discount, images, colours, rating, stock. Take results[i].goods_id for a detail call.
{"goods_id": "63971255", "market": "us"}The full product record. Or use price for a cheap money-and-stock refresh on a schedule.
search is priced by rows returned (a floor of 2 credits, then more as the row count grows); detail and price are 2 credits each. No Shein account, decimal-dollar prices.
curl -X POST https://api.reefapi.com/shein/v1/search \
-H "x-api-key: $REEF_KEY" \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{}'{
"ok": true,
"data": { … },
"meta": {
"api": "shein",
"endpoint": "search",
"mode": "live",
"latency_ms": …,
"record_count": …
},
"error": null
}Reading Shein: units, currency and what we do not return
Measured against the live storefront on 2026-09-03. The rows that go against us are here on purpose: a missing field you know about beats a wrong value you do not.
Decimal dollars, not cents. price 12.54 means $12.54. A price_display string ($12.54) and a currency_code (USD/EUR/GBP) come alongside it.
Price and availability are per-storefront. Pass market (us/de/fr/es/it); the same product can differ between them, so read the market you sell in.
Each card carries its colour variants and the fit-percentages Shein shows (what share of buyers said true-to-size / runs large / runs small) — useful signal most feeds drop.
The per-variant size list (per-size stock) is NOT returned. It lives only on Shein's realtime product endpoint, which sits behind a device risk-gate we do not clear browserlessly at a reliable rate — so rather than ship it flaky, we leave it out. Everything else (price, discount, colours, rating, fit, stock) is present and stable.
The free-text description, the material/attribute table and the size-measurement chart are also not returned — they sit behind a separate challenge on Shein's static product endpoint. The structured facts (price, colours, category, brand, ratings, stock) are what we return, cleanly and reliably.
A product Shein no longer serves comes back as NOT_FOUND, never as an empty shell, so a gone product is never mistaken for a zero-price one.
What people build with Shein
The jobs this data is most often used for.
endpoints
credits per call
Pricing and assortment teams use Shein to search a Shein storefront and get rich product rows for the query.
Brand-protection teams use Shein to get full product record by Shein product id (the number in a /-p-<id>.html URL) or by the URL itself.
Retail analysts use Shein to look up MANY Shein products in ONE call by product id.
Catalog enrichment teams use Shein to get cheap price and stock refresh for one product.
What Shein data costs
The cheapest call here is 1 credit, so $15/mo (Pro) buys 10,000 of them — $1.50 per 1,000 credits. Credits roll over and never expire, and failed or blocked calls are not charged.
Full pricing →- 1,000 free credits on signup, no card
- One key, all 184 APIs, one credit pool
- Failed and blocked calls are never charged
- Credits roll over and never expire
Call it in two lines
Sign up, get 1,000 credits and one key that works on every engine. Then this is the whole protocol.
curl -X POST https://api.reefapi.com/shein/v1/search \
-H "x-api-key: $REEF_KEY" \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{}'import requests
r = requests.post(
"https://api.reefapi.com/shein/v1/search",
headers={"x-api-key": REEF_KEY},
json={},
)
print(r.json()["data"])Have a question? We got answers.
The questions people actually ask before wiring up Shein.
Get a free key →What is the Shein API?▾
Shein API is a ReefAPI endpoint group for shein It returns live JSON through POST requests under /shein/v1.
Is the Shein API free to try?▾
Yes. ReefAPI starts with 1,000 free credits, no card required. Shein calls use the same shared credit balance as every other ReefAPI engine.
Do I need a Shein login or account?▾
No login to Shein is needed for the API response. You call ReefAPI with your x-api-key header, and the playground can run live examples before you create a production key.
How fresh is the Shein data?▾
The page example is captured from a live search call, and production requests fetch live data through ReefAPI rather than a static sample.
How many credits does the Shein API use?▾
Shein actions currently cost 1-2 credits per successful call. Failed or blocked calls are free, and all APIs draw from one credit pool.
Can I call Shein from an AI assistant or MCP client?▾
Yes. Connect ReefAPI once through MCP and your assistant can call shein actions with the same key, credit pool and JSON envelope used by normal REST requests.
Is the Shein API a Shein scraper?▾
It is the managed alternative to a DIY Shein scraper. Instead of building and maintaining your own scraper — proxies, headless browsers, captcha and constant breakage — you call one ReefAPI endpoint and get the same shein back as clean JSON.
Why does my Shein scraper keep getting blocked?▾
Most Shein scrapers break on anti-bot defenses, rate limits and IP bans that need rotating residential proxies and browser fingerprinting to clear. ReefAPI handles all of that for you — no proxies, no captchas, no maintenance — and returns live JSON. Blocked or failed calls are free.
16 More APIs APIs on the same key
One key, one credit pool, one response envelope. If you are pulling Shein, you are one call away from the rest of the category — no second contract, no second integration.
Need something this API does not do?
Name the endpoint, the field, or a source we do not carry yet. We ship new APIs every week and you would be first to get the key. Real people read every message and reply the same day.
Try it on your own data before you pay anything
The call above is the real endpoint, not a recording. A free key gives you 1,000 credits, the other 183 APIs, and the same envelope everywhere.
Endpoints, parameters and credit costs on this page are read from the live catalog and cannot drift from what the API accepts. Field notes were captured on 2026-09-03.