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Alternate Product Data API

Live Alternate data, fetched the moment you ask and handed back in a clean, structured form. Use it in your own app, a spreadsheet or as a tool for an AI assistant.

What you can get: PC hardware and electronics shop: search and product details with prices, RRP, stock and specs.

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100 free requests every month · no credit card

What you can look upbeta
  • Search products
  • Product details

Key facts

Updated

The Alternate Product Data API by everydata.io returns live Alternate data – pc hardware and electronics shop: search and product details with prices, rrp, stock and specs – as structured JSON through 2 endpoints. It is included in every plan, starting with 100 free requests a month, and costs from €1.00 per 1,000 requests on larger plans. The platform is in beta.

Endpoints
2 under /alt
Quota per call
1 request
Free plan
100 req / month
Paid plans
from €30 / month€1.00–€6.00 per 1,000
Avg. response · 24 h
564 ms100% success
Use cases

What teams build with Alternate data

Product data from alternate.de, one of Germany's large PC hardware and electronics shops. Search by keyword and get brand, price, strike price, star rating and availability for 24 products per page, or open one product by link or article number and get the price with RRP, shipping cost, delivery window, EAN, manufacturer part number, full specifications, category path and variants such as other capacities. No customer reviews or reviewer data.

  • Price monitoring for PC components
  • RRP and discount tracking
  • Stock and delivery-time alerts
  • Product catalogue enrichment (EAN, specs)

Works with AI assistants

Models only know what they saw in training. Add the Alternate endpoints as a tool in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or your agent framework, and your assistant can look up current data while it answers.

For developers

Alternate endpoints

All Alternate endpoints are served under the /alt prefix and share the same API key and quota as every other platform.

Search products
GET/alt/alternate-search-by-keyword

24 products per page for a keyword with brand, price, strike price, rating, availability and key features; sorted by relevance, price, rating, newest or discount.

keywordpagesortBy
Product details
GET/alt/alternate-lookup-product

One product by link or article number: price, RRP, shipping cost, availability and delivery window, rating, EAN, manufacturer part number, specifications, categories, images and variants.

urlproductId

Example request

curl "https://api.everydata.io/alt/alternate-lookup-product?productId=1108895" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Example response

200 OK · application/json
{
  "responseStatus": "PRODUCT_FOUND_RESPONSE",
  "responseMessage": "Product successfully found!",
  "productTitle": "Intenso TOP SSD 512 GB",
  "manufacturer": "Intenso",
  "productId": "1108895",
  "price": 75.9,
  "retailPrice": 0,
  "shippingPrice": 7.99,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "available": true,
  "warehouseAvailability": "Sofort verfügbar",
  "productRating": "4.7",
  "countReview": 101,
  "ean": "4034303017546",
  "mpn": "3812450",
  "categories": [
    "Hardware",
    "PC-Komponenten",
    "SSD"
  ]
}
API reference
Pricing

Included in every plan

The Alternate API is part of the shared quota – no separate subscription needed.

Free

€0/ month
Requests / month
100
Rate limit
10 / min
Platforms
all
Support
e-mail
Start for free

Starter

€30/ month
Requests / month
5,000
Rate limit
50 / min
Platforms
all
Support
e-mail
Get started

Production

Recommended
€80/ month
Requests / month
50,000
Rate limit
100 / min
Platforms
all
Support
e-mail
Get started

Business

€300/ month
Requests / month
300,000
Rate limit
250 / min
Platforms
all
Support
e-mail
Get started
All plans

Alternate API: frequently asked questions

Something missing? Write to support@everydata.io.

What data does the Alternate Product Data API return?

PC hardware and electronics shop: search and product details with prices, RRP, stock and specs. The API has 2 endpoints under the /alt path – search products and product details – and every response is structured JSON that starts with responseStatus and responseMessage.

What does “beta” mean for the Alternate API?

The endpoints and response fields are usable today, but they can still change and the platform is not yet counted in the headline success rate. Blocked or failed calls are not billed.

How much does the Alternate API cost?

A call to the Alternate API counts as 1 request against the monthly quota. The Alternate API is included in every plan and shares one quota with all other platforms: 100 free requests a month; paid plans from €30 a month for 5,000 requests (€1.00–€6.00 per 1,000 requests). Failed requests (5xx, blocked pages) are not counted.

Is the Alternate data realtime?

Yes. Each request loads the live Alternate page when you call the API – there is no database of old snapshots in between.

Do I need a Alternate account or an official Alternate API key?

No. You only need an everydata.io API key, sent in the x-api-key header. The free plan works without a credit card.

What happens when Alternate blocks a request?

The API retries the fetch automatically. If the page still cannot be loaded you get a 502 or 503 error, and that request costs no quota. Success rates and response times per platform are measured around the clock on the status page.

Can ChatGPT, Claude or an AI agent use the Alternate API?

Yes. Connect the hosted everydata.io MCP server and the assistant can call every Alternate endpoint as a tool, or register the plain HTTPS endpoints as functions in any agent framework. The endpoint list is also in /llms.txt and the OpenAPI spec.

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