Use the public Instacart APIs to add Instacart shopping capabilities to your applications, such as product shopping lists and recipe ingredients.
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- Modified: 2026-05-19
The Instacart Developer Platform API is a REST-based API that allows app developers to add Instacart shopping capabilities to their websites and applications. It provides endpoints for creating product shopping lists and recipe pages on Instacart Marketplace, enabling users to select a store, add ingredients or products to a cart, and check out.
- Human URL: https://docs.instacart.com/developer_platform_api/
- Base URL:
https://connect.instacart.com
- Delivery
- E-Commerce
- Grocery
- Products
- Recipes
- Shopping
- Documentation
- OpenAPI — OpenAPI Specification
- Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
- Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0
The Instacart Connect Fulfillment API enables retailers to integrate Instacart fulfillment capabilities directly into their e-commerce sites. It combines grocery, delivery, and pickup functionality into a single API, allowing retailers to offer full-service shopping where Instacart shoppers pick items and suggest replacements, as well as same-day or scheduled delivery and pickup options.
- Human URL: https://docs.instacart.com/connect/fulfillment/
- Base URL:
https://connect.instacart.com
- Delivery
- E-Commerce
- Fulfillment
- Grocery
- Pickup
- Retail
- Documentation
- OpenAPI — OpenAPI Specification
- Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
- Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0
- AsyncAPI — AsyncAPI Specification
The Instacart Connect Post-Checkout API allows retailers to provide their customers with real-time order tracking and shopper interaction after an order has been placed. Retailers can use this API to build custom order status pages that display order details, live tracking information, and shopper communication.
- Human URL: https://docs.instacart.com/connect/post-checkout/
- Base URL:
https://connect.instacart.com
- Delivery
- Fulfillment
- Orders
- Retail
- Tracking
- Documentation
- OpenAPI — OpenAPI Specification
- Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
- Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0
The Instacart Catalog API enables retailers to programmatically manage their product catalogs on the Instacart platform. Retailers can use the API to create or update products and items, with partial updates supported so that only the attributes included in the request body are modified.
- Human URL: https://docs.instacart.com/catalog/catalog_api/overview/
- Base URL:
https://connect.instacart.com
- Catalog
- E-Commerce
- Inventory
- Products
- Retail
- Documentation
- OpenAPI — OpenAPI Specification
- Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
- Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0
Instacart Shopping Widgets are front-end web components that retailers can embed into their websites to add e-commerce functionalities powered by Instacart without interacting with any API directly. The widgets enable features such as product search results, cart management, product collections, and user authentication.
- Human URL: https://docs.instacart.com/widgets/
- Base URL:
https://api.example.com
- Embedding
- Retail
- Shopping
- Web Components
- Widgets
- Documentation
- Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
- Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0
- Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
- Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0
- Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
- Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0
- Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
- Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0