How do I tell a brand reply from a customer answer?

Answers carry badges, for example BRAND_EXPERT on a brand representative's reply.

Are answers billed separately?

No. You are charged one point per question returned, with its answers included.

Do I pay for lookups that come back empty?

No. You are charged per result, so a request that finds nothing costs nothing. Testing this against a messy list is free to get wrong.

1 point per returned question, which is $1 per 1,000, capped by max_items. A request with no matches costs nothing.

E-commerce & Marketplaces

Target Product Questions API — Customer Q&A With Answers

Send a Target TCIN or product URL and this source returns the customer questions on that product as data, each with its answers nested inside.

Run it in the app Read the API docs

Example response

{
  "session_id": "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111",
  "kind": "target_products_questions",
  "product": "86216189",
  "product_id": "86216189",
  "max_items": 2,
  "start_page": 1,
  "partial": false,
  "human": "# Target product questions\n\n- **Product (TCIN):** 86216189\n- **Starting page:** 1\n- **Max items:** 2\n- **Records returned:** 2\n- **Proxy traffic:** 6.0 KB",
  "machine": {
    "total_items": 2,
    "first_item": {
      "id": "eadb50bd-0c1a-44f4-9db4-8bf2fe70471b",
      "text": "What age is this for?",
      "author": "Kay",
      "badges": [],
      "helpful_count": 0,
      "unhelpful_count": 0,
      "created_at": "2026-02-21T17:08:47.172Z",
      "updated_at": "2026-02-24T03:32:29.869Z",
      "answer_count": 1,
      "answers": [
        {
          "id": "de93de19-20de-4544-9d99-44d06413ecb7",
          "text": "The 31134 LEGO Creator 3 in 1 Space Shuttle is for recommended ages 6+ as seen on the box, however it can be built by anyone of any age! - Redd, LEGO® Customer Service",
          "author": "LEGO Customer Service",
          "badges": [
            "BRAND_EXPERT"
          ],
          "helpful_count": 1,
          "unhelpful_count": 0,
          "created_at": "2026-02-25T09:15:31Z",
          "updated_at": "2026-07-10T22:15:11.450Z"
        }
      ]
    },
    "items": [
      {
        "id": "eadb50bd-0c1a-44f4-9db4-8bf2fe70471b",
        "text": "What age is this for?",
        "author": "Kay",
        "badges": [],
        "helpful_count": 0,
        "unhelpful_count": 0,
        "created_at": "2026-02-21T17:08:47.172Z",
        "updated_at": "2026-02-24T03:32:29.869Z",
        "answer_count": 1,
        "answers": [
          {
            "id": "de93de19-20de-4544-9d99-44d06413ecb7",
            "text": "The 31134 LEGO Creator 3 in 1 Space Shuttle is for recommended ages 6+ as seen on the box, however it can be built by anyone of any age! - Redd, LEGO® Customer Service",
            "author": "LEGO Customer Service",
            "badges": [
              "BRAND_EXPERT"
            ],
            "helpful_count": 1,
            "unhelpful_count": 0,
            "created_at": "2026-02-25T09:15:31Z",
            "updated_at": "2026-07-10T22:15:11.450Z"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "aa396965-7737-403f-b275-535ff573d44b",
        "text": "how long does it take to older kids or grown-ups build the Space Shuttle?\n(asking cuz I'm considering building this set as an activity at my birthday party).",
        "author": "MicahelHay",
        "badges": [],
        "helpful_count": 0,
        "unhelpful_count": 0,
        "created_at": "2025-11-30T20:14:09.598Z",
        "updated_at": "2025-12-04T03:10:05.030Z",
        "answer_count": 1,
        "answers": [
          {
            "id": "2e49b938-ad2f-4110-8a80-7738eb2871bb",
            "text": "Build time will be dependent on the builder, their experience and the difficulty level of the LEGO® set!",
            "author": "LEGO Customer Service",
            "badges": [
              "BRAND_EXPERT"
            ],
            "helpful_count": 1,
            "unhelpful_count": 2,
            "created_at": "2025-12-01T16:23:01Z",
            "updated_at": "2026-08-31T16:32:12.920Z"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "proxy_traffic_bytes": 6160
  },
  "total_points": 2
}

You send: A Target TCIN or product URL, with optional max_items and start_page
You get back: Questions with author, votes, date and nested answers
Coverage: What Target.com shows publicly for the request.
Price: 1 point per returned question, up to 500 per request — $1 per 1,000; Billed per record actually returned, capped by max_items. A request that returns nothing costs nothing.

Comparison

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 the site by hand	Open the Q&A section and read through it	Free, and slow	Fine for a few questions, useless across a catalog
Building a scraper	Write it, host it, and repair it when Target changes the results page	Engineering time	A maintenance commitment for something that isn't your product
NeuralVerge	One request, the input and options as parameters	$1 per 1,000, misses not billed	A broad request returns a broad — and larger, more expensive — result set

Response

What you get back

Every field in the response shown above.

Field	Type	Description
`total_items`	number	How many questions were returned in this batch (capped by max_items).
`id`	string	Question identifier.
`text`	string	The question as asked.
`author`	string	Name of the person who asked.
`badges`	array	Badges on the question, if any.
`helpful_count`	number	Number of helpful votes.
`unhelpful_count`	number	Number of unhelpful votes.
`created_at`	string	When the question was posted.
`updated_at`	string	When the question was last updated.
`answer_count`	number	Number of answers.
`answers`	array	Answers to the question, each with id, text, author, badges, vote counts and dates (for example a BRAND_EXPERT badge on a brand reply).

Integration

How to run it

The same lookup works from the app, the API, or as a tool an agent can call mid-task.

product is the only required field. max_items caps the questions returned (up to 500, defaults to 25) and sets what you are billed for; each question carries its answers in the answers array.

curl -X POST https://api.neuralverge.ai/functions/v1/run-target-products-questions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "product": "86216189", "max_items": 25 }'

Use cases

What teams use it for

Where this field shows up in an actual workflow.

Listing gap analysis

See what shoppers keep asking that your own product page does not answer.

Brand and support monitoring

Track unanswered questions and how brand replies are received.

Competitor research

Read the concerns buyers raise about a rival product.

FAQ drafting

Turn the most common questions into content for your own listings.

Coverage & limits

Coverage, freshness and limits

What this source covers, how fresh it is, and where it stops.

Coverage

What Target.com shows publicly for the request.

Freshness

Read at request time.

Handling

This source returns publicly visible product information, stamped with the input it was read from and a session id you can trace.

What it will not do

—Many products have no questions, in which case nothing is returned and nothing is billed.
—Answers are included inside each question and are not billed separately.
—Question and answer text is returned as written, including any errors.

FAQ

Questions, answered

Yes. Each question has an answers array with the answer text, author, badges, votes and dates.

Related sources

Target product

The listing these questions belong to.

Target product reviews

Customer reviews for the same TCIN.

Target product recommendations

Try target product questions on your own data

One request format across every source in the catalog.

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