Mercado Libre

Mercado Libre Questions API

A page of buyer questions on a Mercado Libre listing with the seller's answers and answer dates. Mercado Libre shows no question dates. Page through with next_offset. Costs 2 credits per request.

POST/api/v1/mercadolibre/questions

Authorizations

Authorizationstringheaderrequired

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your Scavio API key (e.g. Bearer sk_live_your_key).

Body

application/json

item_idstring

Item (listing) id, as returned in item_id by Search or Product. MLM-3571336480 is accepted too. Pass exactly one of item_id or url.

Example: MLM3571336480

urlstring

A listing page URL, or a product (/p/, /up/) URL: a product's questions are those of the listing in its buy box.

Example: https://www.mercadolibre.com.mx/apple-iphone-15-128-gb-azul-distribuidor-autorizado/p/MLM1027172667

offsetintegerdefault:0

Where to start: next_offset from the previous page.

Example: 20

Notes

Answer dates, no question dates. Each question carries the seller's answer and the date it was answered (answer.date, YYYY-MM-DD). Mercado Libre does not show when a question was asked, so there is no question date. answer is null for an unanswered question.

Paging. The first page holds 20 to 40 questions. Pass next_offset back as offset for the next page; it is null on the last page.

Questions belong to a listing (item_id), not a catalog product. Pass a product URL and the API reads the questions of the listing in its buy box; resolved_from then names the product it started from. A bare product_id is not accepted: take item_id from Search or Product.
A listing with no public questions returns 404 and is billed. A product with nothing in its buy box returns 404 too. Temporary failures (502/503) are never billed.

Request

from scavio import ScavioClient

client = ScavioClient(api_key="sk_live_your_key")

offset = 0
while offset is not None:
    res = client.mercadolibre.questions("MLM3571336480", offset=offset)
    data = res["data"]
    for q in data["questions"]:
        answer = q["answer"]
        print(q["text"], "->", answer["text"] if answer else "(unanswered)")
    offset = data["next_offset"]

Response

"country": "mx",

"site_id": "MLM",

"item_id": "MLM3571336480",

"resolved_from": null,

"offset": 0,

"next_offset": 20,

"count": 20,

"response_time": 4246

}

from scavio import ScavioClient client = ScavioClient(api_key="sk_live_your_key") offset = 0 while offset is not None: res = client.mercadolibre.questions("MLM3571336480", offset=offset) data = res["data"] for q in data["questions"]: answer = q["answer"] print(q["text"], "->", answer["text"] if answer else "(unanswered)") offset = data["next_offset"]