# Capterra Category API (capterra.category)

- Canonical page: https://everyinfra.com/en/capterra-api/category
- Endpoint: POST https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social with {"platform": "capterra", "action": "category", "params": {...}}
- Price: $0.001389 per call ($1.39 per 1,000 requests); failed calls and empty results are not charged
- Returns: list, default 25, max 100 per call
- Mode: sync; add "mode": "async" for slow tasks

Capterra Category lists the software products in one Capterra category, given the category's short name or URL in `category`, and returns each product's name, Capterra link, rating, review count, short description and website domain. It answers which products compete in a category and how their users rate them. Software buyers use it to build a shortlist, and vendors and analysts use it to map competitors and track where a product stands.

`category` is the path of a category page, such as project-management-software or accounting-software, or the full page URL; it is not a free-text search. Read `rating` together with `review_count`: a high score from a handful of reviews says little, and a null `review_count` means the count is not shown, not that there are none. To read the reviews behind a score, move on to the Capterra Reviews capability.

## Health

- Live health (24h percent, hourly and daily trends): https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social/availability?platform=capterra&action=category

## Parameters

| name | type | required | default | description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| category | not declared | yes | not declared | Specifies the Capterra category slug or full URL, such as project-management-software or accounting-software. Slugs map directly to https://www.capterra.com/<category>/. Accepts path values copied directly from category pages, not general keyword search terms. |
| limit | integer (1–100) | no | 25 | The most rows to return in this call, an integer from 1 to 100. The default applies when you leave it out, and a call can return fewer rows. Larger values return 422 before any charge. |

## Response fields (items in `results`)

| field | meaning |
|---|---|
| id | The record's unique ID on the platform. Unique only within one platform; IDs can repeat across platforms. |
| name | Name of the object itself, for account, product and business capabilities. |
| url | Link to the record on the platform. |
| rating | Rating. **The scale varies by platform**: rating_scale on the same row gives the maximum (usually 5; Booking, Douban, iQIYI and NAVER use 10). Convert with rating_scale before comparing across platforms, or the comparison can come out backwards. |
| rating_scale | Maximum of rating in the same row: 5 for five-star scales, 10 for ten-point scales. Present only when the row has a rating. |
| review_count | Number of reviews, for product and business capabilities. null means not disclosed, not 0. |
| description | Summary or description, usually shorter than text. |
| domain | platform-native meaning |
| website | External website entered by the account or business. |
| platform | Source platform identifier, the same as platform in the request (for example xiaohongshu, tiktok). |

## Example

```bash
curl -X POST 'https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $EVERYINFRA_API_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{
  "platform": "capterra",
  "action": "category",
  "params": {
    "category": "project-management-software"
  }
}'
```

```python
import os
import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['EVERYINFRA_API_KEY']}"},
    json={
        "platform": "capterra",
        "action": "category",
        "params": {
            "category": "project-management-software",
        },
    },
    timeout=120,
)
print(response.status_code)
print(response.json())
```

## Response example

Real response to the example request above, captured 2026-09-26T08:56:04Z. `results` and `count` are real with personal information (names, handles, avatars, profile links, contact details) removed; the list keeps the first 2 of 25. `id`, `billing` and `quota` differ on every call, so only their shape is shown.

```text
{
  "id": "req_…",
  "platform": "capterra",
  "action": "category",
  "results": [
    {
      "id": "svc-nj55wm2i",
      "name": "ClockShark",
      "url": "https://www.capterra.com/p/155467/ClockShark/",
      "rating": 4.7,
      "review_count": 1911,
      "description": "Field project management connects jobs, tasks, schedules and crew hours in one shared workflow.",
      "domain": "clockshark.com",
      "website": "https://www.clockshark.com/",
      "platform": "capterra",
      "rating_scale": 5
    },
    {
      "id": "svc-scku531j",
      "name": "Accelo",
      "url": "https://www.capterra.com/p/225762/Accelo/",
      "rating": 4.5,
      "review_count": 178,
      "description": "Accelo connects project delivery to profitability with AI predicting risks, tracking budgets, and surfacing scope creep in real time.",
      "domain": "accelo.com",
      "website": "https://www.accelo.com/",
      "platform": "capterra",
      "rating_scale": 5
    }
  ],
  "count": 25,
  "billing": {
    "charged": …,
    "charged_usd": …,
    "balance_after_usd": …,
    …
  },
  "quota": { … }
}
```

## FAQ

### Does this return the reviews themselves?

No. It lists products with their `rating` and `review_count`. For the reviews, use the Capterra Reviews capability: it takes a product name or the product's Capterra link in the /p/<product ID>/<product slug>/ form, and the link avoids mix-ups between products with the same name. When a row's `url` has that form, pass it as is.

### Where do I find the category name?

Open the category on Capterra and copy the path after capterra.com/, such as project-management-software, or pass the whole page URL. A short name is turned into https://www.capterra.com/<category>/, so any category page works, not only the examples on this page. Free-text phrases are not category names.

### How do I compare Capterra ratings with other review sites?

Scale them first. `rating_scale` on each row gives the maximum of `rating`, and review sites do not all use the same maximum, so divide by it before you compare. Then weigh each score by `review_count`, since a product rated by a few dozen reviewers rests on thinner evidence than one rated by thousands.

## Also

- Capability catalog (no key): https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social/catalog?platform=capterra
- OpenAPI: https://everyinfra.com/openapi.json · Agents guide: https://everyinfra.com/agents.md