Otto.de product data API

ShopAPIS returns structured Otto.de product data — price, currency, availability, seller name and rating, average rating, review count, variant options, delivery estimate, category path and EAN — as normalized JSON. Otto is Germany’s second-largest generalist marketplace after Amazon, strongest in home, furniture and fashion, and a core data source for anyone building German market intelligence beyond Amazon and eBay.

Why Otto data is hard to get

Otto exposes data through partner and seller channels, not a public catalog API. Like most national marketplaces, its programmatic interfaces are gated to merchants selling on the platform, so reading the full catalog — competitor prices, third-party seller offers, ratings — means fetching the live storefront. Anti-bot difficulty is medium: lighter than Amazon’s behavioral stack but heavier than the price-comparison layer. Otto product pages mix first-party retail and marketplace seller listings, so distinguishing who actually fulfils an order matters for pricing analysis — the same article can show a different price and delivery promise depending on the seller behind the offer. Otto also leans heavily on installment financing and seasonal home/furniture promotions, which shift effective prices in ways a single snapshot can miss. ShopAPIS parses the retail listing, the marketplace offers and the promotional state and returns a single normalized record, EAN-keyed so it joins to Amazon.de and Idealo for the same product.

Data fields returned

• Pricing — current price, currency (EUR), original/strike price, discount %, installment options.
• Availability — in-stock flag, delivery estimate, shipping cost.
• Seller — first-party (Otto) vs. marketplace seller, seller name and rating.
• Catalog — title, brand, description, bullet features, category path, energy label where applicable.
• Variants — size/color/configuration with per-variant price and stock.
• Social proof — average rating, review count, review text.
• Identifiers — Otto article number, EAN/GTIN, MPN, product URL.
• Images — gallery URLs.

Sample response

{
  "marketplace": "otto",
  "domain": "otto.de",
  "country": "DE",
  "article_number": "1849832847",
  "identifiers": { "ean": "4066332551209", "mpn": "WAG28400" },
  "title": "Bosch Waschmaschine Serie 6 WAG28400, 9 kg, 1400 U/min",
  "brand": "Bosch",
  "price": { "current": 549.00, "list": 699.00, "currency": "EUR", "discount_pct": 21 },
  "availability": { "in_stock": true, "delivery_estimate": "3-5 Werktage", "shipping_cost": 29.95 },
  "seller": { "name": "OTTO", "type": "first_party", "rating": 4.6 },
  "rating": 4.5,
  "review_count": 312,
  "category": ["Haushalt", "Waschen & Trocknen", "Waschmaschinen"],
  "variants": [{ "title": "9 kg / Weiß", "price": 549.00, "in_stock": true }],
  "energy_label": "A",
  "images": ["https://i.otto.de/i/otto/1849832847.jpg"],
  "url": "https://www.otto.de/p/1849832847",
  "fetched_at": "2026-06-05T08:51:40Z"
}

Markets and domains covered

Use cases

• German price monitoring — track Otto pricing against Amazon.de and Idealo. See price monitoring.
• MAP compliance — watch home and electronics brands for breaches in the German market. See MAP compliance.
• Catalog enrichment — pull rich home/furniture attributes and images by EAN. See catalog enrichment.
• Competitive intelligence — benchmark a second German channel beyond Amazon. See competitive intelligence.

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