How to Check Target Stock by Store Through an API

To check Target stock by store in code, send the item's TCIN and a US ZIP to Scavio's Target API. POST /api/v1/target/availability returns the 20 nearest Target stores in one call, each with in-store, pickup and curbside status, the units Target reports (up to 10), the next pickup date, address, phone and hours. Add store_id to check one store. Every call costs 1 credit, about $0.002 on the Growth plan billed yearly.

Target has no public API for store inventory, and target.com shows stock for one product at a time: you choose Edit store, search a ZIP and read the list. Here is the same check as four API calls, with responses captured on November 3, 2026.

Step 1: Find the item's TCIN

Every Target call keys on the TCIN, Target's item number. It is the number after A- in a product URL, and search returns it for every result:

curl -s https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/target/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCAVIO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"keyword": "nintendo switch 2 console"}'

This returned 24 products from 408 results in 6.0 seconds. The first row, trimmed:

{
  "pos": 1,
  "tcin": "94693225",
  "parent_tcin": "1011548511",
  "title": "Nintendo Switch 2 Console System",
  "url": "https://www.target.com/p/nintendo-switch-2-console/-/A-94693225",
  "brand": "Nintendo",
  "price": 499.99,
  "regular_price": 499.99,
  "on_sale": false,
  "dpci": "207-49-0001",
  "is_marketplace": false
}

dpci is the number on the shelf tag and receipt, so you can match a store-side list to the TCIN here.

Step 2: Check stock at every store near a ZIP

curl -s https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/target/availability \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCAVIO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"tcin": "94693225", "zip": "90012"}'

For downtown Los Angeles this returned 20 stores, nearest first, in 3.3 seconds for 1 credit. The first one, with hours trimmed to one of seven days:

{
  "store_id": "2776",
  "name": "LA Central",
  "distance_miles": 1.34,
  "quantity": 10,
  "in_store": "in_stock",
  "pickup": "in_stock",
  "pickup_date": "2026-11-03",
  "curbside": "unavailable",
  "ship_to_store": null,
  "address": {
    "line1": "735 S Figueroa St.",
    "city": "Los Angeles",
    "state": "California",
    "zipcode": "90017-2571"
  },
  "phone": "213-330-4543",
  "hours": [
    { "date": "2026-11-03", "day": "Tuesday", "is_open": true, "open": "07:00:00", "close": "21:00:00" }
  ]
}

Across the 20 stores, 10 showed 4 units or fewer and 2 were out of stock:

How to read the fields:

• quantity is the units Target reports for that store, and it stops at 10. In our captures no store ever showed more than 10, and a best-selling Bounty paper towel pack showed exactly 10 at 19 of 20 Dallas-area stores. Treat 10 as "10 or more" and 1 to 9 as a low-stock signal, not an exact shelf count.
• in_store is shelf stock; pickup and curbside are the order channels. They can disagree: LA Silver Lake showed 3 units in_stock in store with pickup and curbside unavailable.
• Status values we saw were in_stock, out_of_stock, not_sold_in_store, unavailable and, once, limited_stock_see_store. not_sold_in_store means the store does not carry the item, which is different from sold out.
• Widen or narrow the area with radius (1 to 100 miles, default 25). A call returns at most 20 stores.

Step 3: Price the item at a store

Target prices some items, groceries in particular, store by store. Search, product and category take a store_id and return that store's price; the store ids come from Step 2.

curl -s https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/target/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCAVIO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"keyword": "whole milk", "store_id": "3277"}'

At Manhattan Herald Square (3277) a gallon of Good & Gather Vitamin D whole milk (TCIN 13276134) came back at $4.79. The same search at Dallas Cityplace Market (875) priced it at $2.69. Of the 24 products both searches returned, 15 cost more in Manhattan, 2 cost less and 7 matched. Not everything moves: the Switch 2 was $499.99 at the stores we priced, and the product response's price_location_id was 3991, Target's default with no store context, rather than the store you asked for. That field tells you whether a price is the store's own.

Step 4: Watch one store and alert on a change

Pass store_id with the ZIP to get just that store. Glassell Park, from the Step 2 list:

{"tcin": "94693225", "zip": "90012", "store_id": "3262"}

returned count: 1 with quantity: 0, in_store, pickup and curbside all out_of_stock, in 4.0 seconds for 1 credit. The store must sit inside the radius of the ZIP, or stores comes back empty. A minimal watcher that alerts when a store turns from out of stock to in stock:

import os, time, requests

URL = "https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/target/availability"
HEADERS = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['SCAVIO_API_KEY']}"}
WATCH = [("94693225", "90012", "3262")]  # (tcin, zip, store_id)
last = {}

while True:
    for tcin, zip_code, store_id in WATCH:
        r = requests.post(URL, headers=HEADERS, timeout=120,
                          json={"tcin": tcin, "zip": zip_code, "store_id": store_id})
        stores = r.json()["data"]["stores"]
        if not stores:
            continue
        s = stores[0]
        state = (s["in_store"], s["pickup"], s["quantity"])
        if last.get((tcin, store_id), state)[0] != "in_stock" and s["in_store"] == "in_stock":
            print(f"{s['name']}: back in stock, {s['quantity']} units, pickup {s['pickup']}")
        last[(tcin, store_id)] = state
    time.sleep(3600)

Hourly checks of one item at one store are 720 credits a month. To cover a metro, drop store_id and diff all 20 stores from one call instead.

All five Target endpoints

Every call above billed 1 credit in our November 3 captures. To compare this with the other Target inventory options, see the best Target store inventory APIs. The same store-level pattern works for Walmart store prices and Costco warehouse stock.

Getting started

1. Sign up at dashboard.scavio.dev/sign-up: 50 free credits, no card required.
2. Copy your API key from the dashboard.
3. Send a POST to /api/v1/target/availability with a TCIN and ZIP and your key in the Authorization header.

A stock alert, a store finder or a local price tracker built on Target means keeping every tracked item checked at every store your users care about, every day. Scavio returns that in one JSON shape per call: 200 items across three metros of 20 stores, checked daily, is 18,000 credits a month, about $36 at the Growth-yearly rate of $2 per 1,000 credits. Try the Target API free in the playground first, or call it from Claude and other agents through the MCP server.

Reference: Target API overview · availability · search · product · category · reviews