Search Depop users

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Return the seller matches Depop's search box offers for a term: up to five users with ID, username, shop URL and avatar.

GET/v1/depop/search/usersx-api-key

Headers

Get your API key

x-api-keystringrequiredheader

Your ScrapeAtlas customer key. Create one on /account/ and set SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY.

Query parameters

querystringrequiredquery

Search text, 1-200 characters.

min 1 chars · max 200 chars

Exampleexample

Response fields

requestIdstring

Request correlation UUID.

Upstream request count, decoded response bytes and elapsed milliseconds.

accounting.upstreamRequestsinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.responseBytesinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.durationMsnumber

Always included.

≥ 0

successboolean

True when usable public data is returned; inspect status and coverage for omissions.

statusenum

success, partial, failed or challenged. HTTP 200 can be partial.

one of: success, partial

sourceUrlstring

The public Depop API URL the response describes (fixed origins, validated parameters).

absolute HTTPS URL

fetchedAtstring

UTC retrieval timestamp.

Retrieval coverage and warning codes for this response.

coverage.sourcestring

Always included.

coverage.completeboolean

Always included.

coverage.warningsenum[]

Always included.

querystring

Search text, 1-200 characters.

Always included.

up to 5 items

users.idinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

users.usernamestring

Always included.

users.urlstring

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

users.picturestringnullable

Always included.

HTTP 200 returns the success variant. Check status: partial means usable data with warnings, and failed or challenged requests carry a failure object described in Errors & responses.

Error codes

HTTP	failure.code	Meaning
400	`invalid_request`	Missing, duplicate, ambiguous or unsupported parameters, unsupported URL forms, sorts, markets, filter ids or cursors (Depop rejects a malformed cursor with HTTP 400).
401	`unauthorized`	Invalid API key.
403	`restricted`	Depop requires an account session for the data (its API answered 401).
404	`not_found`	Unknown shop, product or slug.
429	`upstream_rate_limited`	Depop rate limited the request.
502	`upstream_challenged`	Depop's edge answered 403 or a Cloudflare challenge did not clear (status challenged).
502	`unsupported_page`	Layout or identity checks failed, or a non-JSON document was served.
502	`response_too_large`	A response exceeded 3 MiB.
502	`request_limit`	The upstream read budget was exhausted.
502	`upstream_error`	Network failure or an unexpected upstream status after one retry.
503	`busy`	Both retrieval slots are occupied.
504	`timeout`	The 45-second deadline elapsed.

Code example

curl "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/depop/search/users?query=example" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/depop/search/users?query=example",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
  }
);

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data.status, data);

type Result = {
  status: "success" | "partial" | "failed" | "challenged";
  requestId: string;
  [field: string]: unknown;
};

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/depop/search/users?query=example",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": process.env.SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY!
    }
  }
);

const data = (await response.json()) as Result;
if (data.status === "failed" || data.status === "challenged") {
  throw new Error(`Depop request failed: ${data.requestId}`);
}
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/depop/search/users",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "query": "example"
    },
    timeout=60,
)
data = response.json()
print(data["status"], data)

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/depop/search/users?query=example", nil)
	req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	var data map[string]interface{}
	json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&data)
	fmt.Println(data["status"], data)
}

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        var client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
            .uri(URI.create("https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/depop/search/users?query=example"))
            .GET()
            .header("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
            .build();
        var response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.body());
    }
}

Use your sa_live_… customer key at https://api.scrapeatlas.com.

Responses

Successful result. Synthetic example validated against the runtime contract.

{
  "success": true,
  "query": "example",
  "users": [
    {
      "id": 700000001,
      "username": "examplecloset",
      "url": "https://www.depop.com/examplecloset/",
      "picture": "https://media.example.test/u/700000001/U1.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": 700000003,
      "username": "examplecloset2",
      "url": "https://www.depop.com/examplecloset2/",
      "picture": null
    }
  ],
  "status": "success",
  "requestId": "11111111-1111-4111-8111-111111111111",
  "sourceUrl": "https://webapi.depop.com/presentation/api/v1/search/users/?query=example",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-12T12:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_api",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": []
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 1,
    "responseBytes": 182,
    "durationMs": 1270
  }
}

Missing, duplicate, ambiguous or unsupported parameters, unsupported URL forms, sorts, markets, filter ids or cursors (Depop rejects a malformed cursor with HTTP 400).

{
  "requestId": "9d2f1c0a-6b1e-4c7d-9a8e-2f3b4c5d6e7f",
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 0,
    "responseBytes": 0,
    "durationMs": 0
  },
  "success": false,
  "status": "failed",
  "failure": {
    "code": "invalid_request",
    "message": "Invalid request: missing, duplicate, unsupported or malformed parameters."
  }
}