Search Polymarket

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Search Polymarket events by keyword, with matching tags and trader profiles when you ask for them. Each event carries its markets with outcomes and prices. Page through results with page.

GET/v1/polymarket/searchx-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

Required search text, 1–200 characters.

min 1 chars · max 200 chars

Examplebitcoin

pagestringquery

Results page, 1–100; defaults to 1.

limitstringquery

Results per type (events, tags, profiles), 1–50; defaults to 10.

Example10

profilesenumquery

true also searches trader profiles. Defaults to false; profiles is null when not requested.

one of: true, false

tagsenumquery

true also searches category tags. Defaults to false; tags is null when not requested.

one of: true, false

Response fields

requestIdstring

Request correlation UUID.

Upstream requests, 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 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

Public Polymarket page the data describes, or the public API URL when no page exists (an order book or price history requested by token ID).

absolute HTTPS URL

fetchedAtstring

UTC retrieval time.

complete is false when a warning names an omission, such as market_limit, level_limit, point_limit, comment_row_limit or stats_unavailable.

coverage.sourcestring

Always included.

coverage.completeboolean

Always included.

coverage.warningsstring[]

Always included.

Matching events: id, slug, title, image, startDate, endDate, active, closed, archived, ended, negRisk and markets.

up to 50 items

events.idstring

Always included.

events.slugstring

Always included.

events.titlestring

Always included.

events.imagestringoptional

Optional.

events.startDatestringoptional

Optional.

events.endDatestringoptional

Optional.

events.activebooleanoptional

Optional.

events.closedbooleanoptional

Optional.

events.archivedbooleanoptional

Optional.

events.endedbooleanoptional

Optional.

events.negRiskbooleanoptional

Optional.

up to 1000 items

events.markets.questionstring

Always included.

events.markets.slugstring

Always included.

events.markets.groupItemTitlestringoptional

Optional.

events.markets.outcomesstring[]optional

Optional.

up to 100 items

events.markets.outcomePricesstring[]optional

Optional.

up to 100 items

events.markets.activebooleanoptional

Optional.

events.markets.closedbooleanoptional

Optional.

events.markets.archivedbooleanoptional

Optional.

events.markets.closedTimestringoptional

Optional.

events.markets.lastTradePricenumberoptional

Optional.

events.markets.bestBidnumberoptional

Optional.

events.markets.bestAsknumberoptional

Optional.

events.markets.spreadnumberoptional

Optional.

true also searches category tags. Defaults to false; tags is null when not requested.

tags.idstring

Always included.

tags.labelstring

Always included.

tags.slugstring

Always included.

tags.event_countintegeroptional

Optional.

true also searches trader profiles. Defaults to false; profiles is null when not requested.

profiles.namestringoptional

Optional.

profiles.pseudonymstringoptional

Optional.

profiles.displayUsernamePublicbooleanoptional

Optional.

profiles.proxyWalletstring

Always included.

profiles.biostringoptional

Optional.

profiles.profileImagestringoptional

Optional.

pageinteger

Results page, 1–100; defaults to 1.

≥ 1

hasMoreboolean

Whether another page of events exists.

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
200	`partial`	Usable data with level_limit, point_limit, market_limit, comment_row_limit or *_unavailable warnings.
400	`invalid_request`	Missing, duplicate, conflicting, unsafe or unsupported parameters, a URL outside polymarket.com, or a cursor the source rejects.
401	`unauthorized`	Missing or invalid worker API key.
404	`not_found`	Unknown event, market, outcome, token, series, handle or wallet.
429	`upstream_rate_limited`	Polymarket throttled the request; no automatic retry.
502	`upstream_challenged`	Polymarket rejected the request or answered with a challenge page.
502	`unsupported_page`	Malformed, mismatched or non-JSON source data, or a profile page without its wallet address.
502	`response_too_large` `payload_too_complex`	Response exceeded byte or parsing limits.
502	`unsafe_redirect` `request_limit` `upstream_error`	Bounded source retrieval could not complete.
503	`busy`	All worker slots and queue places are occupied.
504	`timeout`	Total request deadline expired.

Code example

curl "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/polymarket/search?query=bitcoin&limit=10" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/polymarket/search?query=bitcoin&limit=10",
  {
    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/polymarket/search?query=bitcoin&limit=10",
  {
    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(`Polymarket request failed: ${data.requestId}`);
}
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/polymarket/search",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "query": "bitcoin",
        "limit": "10"
    },
    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/polymarket/search?query=bitcoin&limit=10", 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/polymarket/search?query=bitcoin&limit=10"))
            .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,
  "status": "success",
  "requestId": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000001",
  "sourceUrl": "https://polymarket.com/search?q=bitcoin",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-13T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_api",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": []
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 1,
    "responseBytes": 40689,
    "durationMs": 420
  },
  "events": [
    {
      "id": "1143496",
      "slug": "bitcoin-above-on-december-31",
      "title": "Bitcoin above ___ on December 31?",
      "image": "https://example.test/btc.png",
      "startDate": "2026-10-01T00:00:00Z",
      "endDate": "2026-12-31T17:00:00Z",
      "active": true,
      "closed": false,
      "archived": false,
      "ended": false,
      "negRisk": false,
      "markets": [
        {
          "question": "Will the price of Bitcoin be above $100,000 on December 31?",
          "slug": "bitcoin-above-100k-on-december-31",
          "groupItemTitle": "100,000",
          "outcomes": [
            "Yes",
            "No"
          ],
          "outcomePrices": [
            "0.42",
            "0.58"
          ],
          "active": true,
          "closed": false,
          "archived": false,
          "lastTradePrice": 0.42,
          "bestBid": 0.41,
          "bestAsk": 0.43,
          "spread": 0.02
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "tags": null,
  "profiles": null,
  "page": 1,
  "hasMore": true
}

Missing, duplicate, conflicting, unsafe or unsupported parameters, a URL outside polymarket.com, or a cursor the source rejects.

{
  "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."
  }
}