Superbalist product data API

ShopAPIS returns structured Superbalist product data — title, brand, price in South African rand, size and color variants, designer/collection, rating, review count and stock — as clean JSON from superbalist.com. Superbalist is a leading South African first-party fashion and lifestyle e-tailer; it was sold by Takealot in 2024 and now operates independently (digitalstreetsa / techcentral, Takealot Group FY25 ). Its curated, brand-rich fashion catalog makes it the cleanest source of apparel pricing, sizing and assortment data in Southern Africa.

As a curated 1P fashion player rather than a general marketplace, Superbalist’s competitive signal lives in per-size stock, markdown timing and brand assortment — the same fashion-specific fields that distinguish it from Takealot’s broad catalog.

Why Superbalist data is hard to get

Superbalist is a curated fashion e-tailer, so the decisive signals are per-size and per-color stock, end-of-season markdowns and brand assortment — all rendering dynamically behind bot defense. Superbalist exposes no public product API, so brands and analysts cannot pull catalog, sizing or pricing at scale officially. Fashion adds size grids, sell-through and fast markdown cycles, and now that the site runs independently of Takealot its catalog and pricing diverge from the parent group. ShopAPIS captures the live price, the full size/color variant matrix with per-variant stock, the brand and any markdown.

Data fields returned

• Identity — Superbalist SKU, title, brand, designer/collection, category path
• Pricing — selling price, original price, currency (ZAR), discount %
• Variants — size grid and color variants resolved to per-variant stock
• Attributes — material, fit, gender, season where present
• Social proof — rating average, review count
• Availability — in-stock and low-stock flags per size
• Media — image gallery
• Shipping — delivery estimate, free-shipping threshold

Sample response

{
  "platform": "superbalist",
  "country": "ZA",
  "sku": "SB-441208",
  "url": "https://superbalist.com/products/sb-441208",
  "title": "New Balance 574 Core Sneakers",
  "brand": "New Balance",
  "category": ["Men", "Shoes", "Sneakers"],
  "price": 1799.00,
  "original_price": 2499.00,
  "discount_pct": 28,
  "currency": "ZAR",
  "attributes": { "gender": "Men", "material": "Suede / Mesh", "season": "AW25" },
  "variants": [
    { "size": "UK 8", "stock": 12 },
    { "size": "UK 9", "stock": 3 },
    { "size": "UK 10", "stock": 0 }
  ],
  "rating": { "average": 4.7, "review_count": 204 },
  "availability": "In stock",
  "shipping": { "free_over": 500, "delivery": "2-4 days" },
  "images": ["https://superbalist.com/cdn/.../nb-574.jpg"]
}

Markets and domains covered

Superbalist serves South Africa from superbalist.com (South Africa, ZAR), in English. ShopAPIS resolves products by URL or by SKU and returns rand pricing with the complete size and color variant matrix. Because Superbalist now runs independently of Takealot, ShopAPIS tracks it as a distinct catalog with its own pricing.

Use cases

• Fashion markdown monitoring — track end-of-season discounts across brands in ZAR (/solutions/price-monitoring).
• Assortment and competitive intel — compare brand assortment against Takealot and other SA retailers (/solutions/competitive-intelligence).
• Size-level inventory tracking — monitor per-size stock to spot demand and stockouts (/solutions/inventory-tracking).
• Catalog enrichment — ingest brand, material, fit and image attributes for fashion catalogs (/solutions/catalog-enrichment).

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