## aliexpress/categories

`GET /v1/aliexpress/categories`

AliExpress's top-level categories with their children and ids for aliexpress/search.

*AliExpress categories*

| Parameter | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `language` | no | Locale — e.g. `en_US` |
| `dry_run` | no | Read a zero-credit estimate without fetching sources, running AI, or reserving credits. Cache status is a snapshot, not a guarantee at execution. — e.g. `1` |

**Cost:** 1 credit at list price per successful uncached response; variable-cost operations may quote or settle a different charge. Confirmed uncharged or refunded failures report zero. Pending reconciliation can report credits_used:null; retain request_id and the original idempotency key.

```bash
curl "https://www.monocrawl.com/v1/aliexpress/categories" \
  -H "x-api-key: mn_your_key_here"
```

### Response data

Illustrative abbreviated data; documented core fields are optional and may be null. Additional source fields are allowed.

```json
{
  "count": 0,
  "has_more": false,
  "items": [
    {
      "children": [
        {}
      ],
      "id": "example",
      "name": "example"
    }
  ]
}
```

[Field reference](https://www.monocrawl.com/docs/endpoints/aliexpress/categories#response) · [JSON Schema for response.data](https://www.monocrawl.com/schemas/aliexpress/categories.json)