> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.shopsniffer.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Free export

Try ShopSniffer with no sign-up — export the first 100 products from any public Shopify store.

## Overview

Free export is the zero-friction entry point to ShopSniffer. No account, no API key, no payment — just hit the endpoint with a store domain and get back the first 100 products from that store's public catalog. Use it to verify a store is analyzable, build trial integrations, or prototype.

## Making a request

```bash
curl "https://shopsniffer.com/api/free-export?domain=allbirds.com"
```

```json title="Response 200"
{
  "products": [
    {
      "id": 123456789,
      "title": "Tree Runners",
      "handle": "tree-runners",
      "vendor": "Allbirds",
      "product_type": "Shoes",
      "variants": [{ "id": 43210987654, "price": "98.00", "sku": "TR-FOG-10" }],
      "images": [{ "src": "https://cdn.shopify.com/..." }]
    }
  ]
}
```

## Limitations

Free export is intentionally minimal. If you need the full catalog, collections, pages, app detection, theme detection, PageSpeed, or downloadable files, use `POST /api/jobs` with an API key or [x402 payment](/x402-payment).

- **First 100 products only** — larger catalogs are truncated.
- **Products only** — no collections, pages, shop metadata, PageSpeed, or app/theme detection.
- **No exports** — no CSV or JSON files to download. The response body is the data.
- **Rate-limited at the edge** — Cloudflare blocks sustained per-IP abuse automatically.
- **Pulls directly from Shopify** — the response shape mirrors Shopify's `/products.json` endpoint, not our enriched format.

## When to use which

| Need | Endpoint |
| --- | --- |
| First 100 products for any store | `GET /api/free-export` |
| Full catalog, CSV import | `POST /api/jobs` |
| Store monitoring | `POST /api/shops` + monitoring API |
| AI chat about a report | `POST /api/chat` |

## Try it

Use the [web UI](https://shopsniffer.com/free-export) to try free export without writing code — paste a domain, get a preview.

## Next steps

**[Buying a report](/buying-a-report)**

Upgrade to a full $9.99 report with all features.
  **[Reports API](/api/reports)**

`GET /api/free-export` reference.
  **[x402 payment](/x402-payment)**

Pay per request without an account.
  **[Rate limits](/rate-limits)**

Free export rate limiting details.