Avito Category Tree — IDs, Aliases & Browse URLs
This source returns Avito's category tree as data: departments and sub-categories with an ID, name, alias, parent ID, level and browse URL for each.
{
"session_id": "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111",
"kind": "avito_categories",
"human": "# Avito categories\n\n- **Categories returned:** 77\n- **Proxy traffic:** 2.16 MB",
"machine": {
"total_items": 77,
"items": [
{
"@type": "AvitoCategory",
"id": "1",
"name": "Транспорт",
"alias": "transport",
"parent_id": null,
"level": 1,
"url": "https://www.avito.ru/all/transport",
"node_id": "25984",
"microcategory_id": "2"
},
{
"@type": "AvitoCategory",
"id": "9",
"name": "Автомобили",
"alias": "avtomobili",
"parent_id": "1",
"level": 2,
"url": "https://www.avito.ru/all/avtomobili",
"node_id": "25985",
"microcategory_id": "14"
}
],
"response_bytes": 2268767
},
"total_points": 5
}- You send
- Nothing — no parameters
- You get back
- The category tree: ID, name, alias, parent ID, level and browse URL
- Coverage
- The Avito category tree as published on the site.
- Price
- 5 points per run — $5 per 1,000
- Flat 5 points for the run, as shown in the sample response (total_points is 5 for the whole tree). With no input there is no partial match to worry about.
Ways to get this data
Three approaches teams use today, and where each one runs into trouble.
| Approach | What it takes | Cost | Trade-off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Browsing Avito's category pages by hand | Click through departments and copy each slug | Free, and tedious | Fine for one or two categories, impractical for the full tree |
| Building a scraper | Write it, host it, and repair it when Avito changes its navigation | Engineering time | A lot of upkeep for a lookup you run rarely |
| NeuralVerge | One request, no parameters | 5 points flat | Returns the whole tree every time — there's no way to ask for one branch |
What you get back
Every field in the response shown above.
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
total_items | number | How many categories the tree contains. |
id | string | Avito's ID for the category. |
name | string | Category name, in Russian. |
alias | string | URL slug for the category, the value used for the category filter in Avito items search. |
parent_id | string | ID of the parent category; null for a top-level department. |
level | number | Depth in the tree, 1 for a department. |
url | string | Link to the category's browse page. |
node_id | string | Avito's node ID for the category. |
microcategory_id | string | Avito's microcategory ID. |
How to run it
The same lookup works from the app, the API, or as a tool an agent can call mid-task.
No parameters. Use alias as the category value in Avito items search, and parent_id with level to rebuild the tree on your side. The sample is trimmed to two categories for readability; a real run returns the full tree.
curl -X POST https://api.neuralverge.ai/functions/v1/run-avito-categories \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{}'What teams use it for
Where this field shows up in an actual workflow.
Get the alias to pass as category in Avito items search.
Map Avito's departments to your own product categories.
List what Avito organises its listings into before you decide what to monitor.
Coverage, freshness and limits
What this source covers, how fresh it is, and where it stops.
The Avito category tree as published on the site.
Read at request time.
This source returns the publicly visible category structure, stamped with a session id you can trace.
- —Category names come back in Russian.
- —You can't request a single branch — every run returns the whole tree.
- —The docs describe the price as "5 point per returned record", while the sample response bills 5 points for the whole tree; this page follows the sample.
Questions, answered
Pass it as the category value in Avito items search to restrict a query to that category.
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Try avito categories on your own data
One request format across every source in the catalog.