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# Find discounted products in a category

> Discover discounted in-stock products in a category above a minimum discount threshold (discount = current price below the retailer's list price). Quality-gated: unbranded listings, sub-$5 items, and discounts above 70% (the inflated-list-price spam signature) are excluded. Ranked by discount depth weighted by log(price), so meaningful discounts on real products outrank deep cuts on trinkets. Each deal carries observed_at (when its price was seen) and a nullable gpc block (fail-soft).



## OpenAPI

````yaml https://api.syntalic.com/openapi.json get /v1/shopper/deal-finder
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: 'Syntalic — Data Analytics for Agentic Commerce '
  version: 1.0.0
  contact:
    name: Syntalic
    email: support@syntalic.com
    url: https://syntalic.com
  description: >-
    Competitive pricing data across US and Canadian e-commerce retailers
    (Amazon, Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, etc.). Serves price
    comparisons, deal alerts, brand tracking, promotional intelligence, and
    market analytics to AI agents via x402 and MPP micropayments.
  x-guidance: >-
    This API has three endpoint groups organized by use case:


    **Shopper endpoints** ($0.01/query): Use these for price comparisons and
    deal hunting. Start with /v1/shopper/best-price?q=<product> to find the
    cheapest option across retailers. Use
    /v1/shopper/deal-finder?category=<category> to find discounted products. Use
    /v1/shopper/price-drop-alert?q=<product> to check for recent price drops.


    **Marketing endpoints** ($0.01/query): Use these for competitive analysis.
    /v1/marketing/competitive-landscape?category=<category> shows all products
    in a category with pricing. /v1/marketing/brand-tracker?brand=<brand> tracks
    a brand's pricing over time.
    /v1/marketing/share-of-shelf?category=<category> shows brand market share.


    **Analyst endpoints** ($0.02/query): Use these for market-level insights.
    /v1/analyst/inflation?category=<category> shows price trends over time.
    /v1/analyst/price-dispersion?category=<category> shows price spread across
    retailers.


    All endpoints accept an optional 'country' parameter (us or ca, defaults to
    us). Query parameters use 'q' for free-text search and 'category' for
    category-level queries.


    Marketing and analyst responses carry a `meta` block (served_from,
    freshness_seconds, schema_version) for staleness budgeting and a `resolved`
    block describing how the category input was matched against the taxonomy.
    Every response also sends an X-Data-Freshness-Hours header.


    **Free pre-payment rejection:** requests that cannot be served are rejected
    BEFORE any payment challenge — invalid params (400 INVALID_PARAMS),
    retailers that are not serving-eligible (404 RETAILER_NOT_SERVING_ELIGIBLE,
    with the catalog quality status and the serving_eligible_retailers list in
    error.details), and shopper queries that resolve to nothing in the catalog
    (404 NO_RESULTS). You only pay when the API can actually execute your query.
    Retailer values are case-insensitive (amazon == Amazon).
servers:
  - url: https://api.syntalic.com
security: []
paths:
  /v1/shopper/deal-finder:
    get:
      tags:
        - Shopper
      summary: Find discounted products in a category
      description: >-
        Discover discounted in-stock products in a category above a minimum
        discount threshold (discount = current price below the retailer's list
        price). Quality-gated: unbranded listings, sub-$5 items, and discounts
        above 70% (the inflated-list-price spam signature) are excluded. Ranked
        by discount depth weighted by log(price), so meaningful discounts on
        real products outrank deep cuts on trinkets. Each deal carries
        observed_at (when its price was seen) and a nullable gpc block
        (fail-soft).
      operationId: findDeals
      parameters:
        - name: brand
          in: query
          required: false
          schema:
            type: string
            minLength: 1
          description: Brand name (e.g., Sony, Samsung, Nike)
          example: Apple
        - name: category
          in: query
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
            minLength: 1
          description: >-
            Product category in the Shopify product taxonomy. Accepts a display
            path (e.g. 'Electronics > Computers > Laptops'), its slug form (e.g.
            'electronics/computers/laptops'), a single path segment (e.g.
            'laptops', 'headphones'), or an everyday shelf name (e.g. 'apparel',
            'beauty', 'grocery'); matched against the catalog's category tree
            (exact node, subtree, or whole path segment). Also accepts a GS1 GPC
            code (exactly 8 digits, e.g. '10001159') to filter by PRODUCT TYPE
            instead of by shelf placement — the same product type is shelved
            under different categories by different retailers, so a category
            filter answers from a fraction of the data while a GPC code spans
            them. Coarser codes (class/family/segment) match every brick beneath
            them. Resolve a phrase to a code with /v1/reference/classify?q=... ;
            when a code is used, resolved.match_source is 'gpc'.
          example: electronics
        - name: country
          in: query
          required: false
          schema:
            type: string
            enum:
              - us
              - ca
            default: us
          description: Country (us or ca)
          example: us
        - name: retailer
          in: query
          required: false
          schema:
            type: string
            enum:
              - amazon
              - walmart
              - target
              - bestbuy
              - homedepot
              - costco
              - ikea
              - samsclub
              - cvs
              - dillards
          description: >-
            Filter to a specific retailer platform (long-tail specialty stores
            are also present; any platform key is accepted)
          example: amazon
        - name: min_discount_pct
          in: query
          required: false
          schema:
            type: integer
            default: 10
          description: Minimum discount percentage (default 10)
          example: 10
        - name: limit
          in: query
          required: false
          schema:
            type: integer
            default: 20
            minimum: 1
            maximum: 50
          description: Max results to return (default 20, min 1, max 50)
          example: 20
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Deals found
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  category:
                    type: string
                  country:
                    type: string
                  currency:
                    type: string
                  deals:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      type: object
                      properties:
                        product_uid:
                          type: string
                        entity_uid:
                          type: string
                        product_id:
                          type: string
                        product_name:
                          type: string
                        brand:
                          type: string
                          nullable: true
                        retailer:
                          type: string
                        price:
                          type: number
                        list_price:
                          type: number
                          nullable: true
                        discount_pct:
                          type: number
                          nullable: true
                        star_rating:
                          type: number
                          nullable: true
                        review_count:
                          type: integer
                          nullable: true
                        promo_flag:
                          type: boolean
                        in_stock:
                          type: boolean
                          nullable: true
                        condition:
                          type: string
                        match_type:
                          type: string
                        observed_at:
                          type: string
                          format: date-time
                        scraped_at:
                          type: string
                          format: date-time
                      additionalProperties: true
                  total_deals_found:
                    type: integer
                  meta:
                    type: object
                    properties:
                      served_from:
                        type: string
                      freshness_seconds:
                        type: number
                      schema_version:
                        type: string
                      computed_at:
                        type: string
                        format: date-time
                      price_observed_at_min:
                        type: string
                        format: date-time
                        nullable: true
                      price_observed_at_max:
                        type: string
                        format: date-time
                        nullable: true
                    additionalProperties: true
        '400':
          description: >-
            Invalid query parameters or unsupported enum values. Rejected by
            preflight BEFORE the payment challenge — no payment is requested or
            charged for malformed requests.
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                type: object
                required:
                  - type
                  - title
                  - status
                properties:
                  type:
                    type: string
                    format: uri-reference
                  title:
                    type: string
                    example: Bad Request
                  status:
                    type: integer
                    const: 400
                  detail:
                    type: string
                  instance:
                    type: string
                  error:
                    type: object
                    properties:
                      code:
                        type: string
                      message:
                        type: string
                      details:
                        type: object
                        additionalProperties: true
                    additionalProperties: true
                additionalProperties: true
        '402':
          description: Payment challenge required before executing paid work
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                type: object
                required:
                  - type
                  - title
                  - status
                properties:
                  type:
                    type: string
                    format: uri-reference
                  title:
                    type: string
                    example: Payment Required
                  status:
                    type: integer
                    const: 402
                  detail:
                    type: string
                  instance:
                    type: string
                  error:
                    type: object
                    properties:
                      code:
                        type: string
                      message:
                        type: string
                      details:
                        type: object
                        additionalProperties: true
                    additionalProperties: true
                additionalProperties: true
        '404':
          description: >-
            No matching result. error.code distinguishes the cases: NO_RESULTS
            (the query resolves to nothing in the catalog),
            RETAILER_NOT_SERVING_ELIGIBLE (the requested retailer exists but is
            not serving-eligible — error.details carries its catalog
            quality_status and the serving_eligible_retailers list to retry
            against), or NOT_PUBLISHED (a social rollup the current publish run
            does not compute yet — a gap in what we publish, not a finding about
            the category). Structurally-unservable requests are rejected by
            preflight before any payment challenge.
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                type: object
                required:
                  - type
                  - title
                  - status
                properties:
                  type:
                    type: string
                    format: uri-reference
                  title:
                    type: string
                    example: Not Found
                  status:
                    type: integer
                    const: 404
                  detail:
                    type: string
                  instance:
                    type: string
                  error:
                    type: object
                    properties:
                      code:
                        type: string
                      message:
                        type: string
                      details:
                        type: object
                        additionalProperties: true
                    additionalProperties: true
                additionalProperties: true
        '429':
          description: Rate limit exceeded
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                type: object
                required:
                  - type
                  - title
                  - status
                properties:
                  type:
                    type: string
                    format: uri-reference
                  title:
                    type: string
                    example: Too Many Requests
                  status:
                    type: integer
                    const: 429
                  detail:
                    type: string
                  instance:
                    type: string
                  error:
                    type: object
                    properties:
                      code:
                        type: string
                      message:
                        type: string
                      details:
                        type: object
                        additionalProperties: true
                    additionalProperties: true
                additionalProperties: true
        '500':
          description: Unexpected server error
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                type: object
                required:
                  - type
                  - title
                  - status
                properties:
                  type:
                    type: string
                    format: uri-reference
                  title:
                    type: string
                    example: Internal Server Error
                  status:
                    type: integer
                    const: 500
                  detail:
                    type: string
                  instance:
                    type: string
                  error:
                    type: object
                    properties:
                      code:
                        type: string
                      message:
                        type: string
                      details:
                        type: object
                        additionalProperties: true
                    additionalProperties: true
                additionalProperties: true

````

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