macys-research

Macy's research

Look up a specific Macy's product's detail and reviews by its numeric productId, and pull Macy's own typeahead suggestions — all as normalized JSON from the Crawlora API, with no HTML scraping. This skill does not cover search or category browsing; it only works from a known productId.

When to use this skill

• "What does this Macy's product cost / what's in the description?" given a macys.com product URL or its ?ID= value.
• "Pull the reviews and rating summary for this Macy's product."
• "What does Macy's autocomplete suggest for [query]?" to discover related search terms.
• "Summarize this Macy's item's colors, pricing, and customer sentiment" for a known product.

Setup (one-time)

• Get a free Crawlora API key (2,000 credits/mo, no card) at https://crawlora.net.
• Set CRAWLORA_API_KEY in the environment before running the helper.
• The helper reads CRAWLORA_API_KEY from the environment and sends requests to https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1. Missing/invalid key → 401.

How it works

1. Get a productId — a numeric id taken from a macys.com product page's ?ID= query parameter (or otherwise already known/discovered). There is no search or category endpoint in this skill to find one from a keyword.
2. Detail — /macys/product/{productId} returns full product content: name, brand, description, department/division, category breadcrumb, pricing (with sale detection), availability, images, aggregate rating, and every purchasable color variant with its own price.
3. Reviews — /macys/product/reviews (product_id, paginated with page) returns one page of normalized customer reviews plus a site-wide rating summary (count, average, recommended ratio, histogram) for that product.
4. Suggest — /macys/suggest (query) returns Macy's own search-box typeahead phrases for a partial query — a flat list of strings, no product data — useful for discovering related terms, not for finding a productId.

Full endpoint list, methods, and params: reference/endpoints.md.

Calling the API

# Product detail (productId is a path param):
scripts/crawlora.sh /macys/product/12345678 | jq '.data'

# Reviews for that same product, paginated:
scripts/crawlora.sh /macys/product/reviews product_id=12345678 page=1 | jq '.'

# Search-box suggestions for a partial query:
scripts/crawlora.sh /macys/suggest query="winter coat" | jq '.'

Use scripts/crawlora.sh for all requests; it keeps the API key out of command-line arguments.

Endpoint reference

See reference/endpoints.md for every Macy's endpoint this skill uses (method, path, params, description).

Examples

• Product due diligence: /macys/product/{productId} for price/description/variants, then /macys/product/reviews (same product_id, paginated) to summarize what customers say before recommending it.
• Term discovery: /macys/suggest on a rough query to see Macy's own suggested phrases — useful context when a user asks about a product category, even though this skill can't browse or search that category directly.

Notes & limits

• No search or category-browse endpoint — this skill requires a known numeric productId, sourced from a macys.com product page's ?ID= query parameter, as the entry point. /macys/suggest only returns suggested search phrases (no product data), so it cannot substitute for search when the user doesn't already have a productId.
• Credits / pay-on-success: billed only on 2xx; free tier 2,000 credits/mo. Key at https://crawlora.net.
• Public data only — public Macy's product pages; respect Macy's terms.
• Security: key lives in CRAWLORA_API_KEY only — never hardcode, query-param, or commit it.
• product_id on /macys/product/reviews is the same numeric id as productId on /macys/product/{productId} — a product with zero reviews, or a well-formed but unrecognized id, returns a normal, empty result rather than an error.
• Reviews are paginated with a 1-based page, defaulting to 1.