AI-Powered Product Categorization for Shoes

Shoes Product Categorization

The footwear vertical represents one of the largest and most competitive segments in e-commerce, encompassing everything from luxury designer heels and premium athletic sneakers to everyday casual shoes and specialized work boots. With consumers increasingly shopping online for footwear across multiple categories and brands, accurate product categorization has become essential for connecting customers with the right shoes for their needs. Our AI-powered categorization API automatically classifies footwear into the correct taxonomy categories across all major e-commerce marketplaces, ensuring maximum visibility for your shoe inventory.

Footwear products present unique categorization challenges due to the intersection of style, function, and gender-specific classifications. A leather ankle boot could be categorized as women's fashion boots, men's dress boots, or work boots depending on its styling, construction, and intended use. Athletic shoes require precise distinction between running shoes, basketball shoes, training shoes, and casual athletic sneakers. Our machine learning models understand these nuances, recognizing brand names like Nike, Adidas, Steve Madden, and Timberland, as well as style descriptors, material specifications, and activity-specific terminology that determine accurate categorization across Google Shopping, Amazon, Shopify, and eBay taxonomies.

Whether you're operating a dedicated footwear retailer, managing shoes within a fashion marketplace, or running product feeds for shoe brands and manufacturers, our API streamlines the categorization workflow for your entire inventory. We support automatic classification into athletic shoes, boots, sandals, heels, flats, sneakers, slippers, and specialty footwear. The API processes requests in under 100 milliseconds, enabling real-time categorization during product uploads and efficient bulk processing for seasonal footwear collections and new style releases.

Shoes Taxonomy Hierarchy

Footwear products follow a hierarchical taxonomy structure organized by shoe type, gender, and style category. Understanding this structure is essential for e-commerce success, as customers typically search by footwear type (sneakers, boots, heels), gender, or specific activity (running, hiking, formal). Our API navigates this complexity automatically, ensuring each product lands in the most specific and relevant category.

The diagram below illustrates how the Shoes vertical branches into style-specific subcategories, each containing further refinements for precise product classification. Our AI understands the relationships between casual and athletic footwear, automatically classifying products based on style, function, material, and target demographic.

Footwear Categories

Each category contains detailed subcategories for specific product variants. Athletic Shoes includes running (road, trail, track), basketball, tennis, training, and cross-training. Boots subdivides by height (ankle, mid-calf, knee-high), style (fashion, work, hiking), and material (leather, suede, synthetic). Our API automatically determines the complete category path based on your product descriptions.

API Integration for Shoes

Integrating footwear categorization into your e-commerce workflow is straightforward with our RESTful API. Send your product title and description, and receive accurate category classifications for all major marketplaces.

import requests

def categorize_shoes(product_description, api_key):
    base_url = "https://www.productcategorization.com/api/ecommerce/ecommerce_category6_get.php"
    params = {"query": product_description, "api_key": api_key, "data_type": "google"}
    response = requests.get(base_url, params=params)
    return response.json()

# Example: Categorize running shoes
result = categorize_shoes(
    "Nike Air Zoom Pegasus 40 Mens Running Shoes Black White Size 10",
    "your_api_key_here"
)
print(f"Category: {result['category']}")
# Output: Apparel & Accessories > Shoes > Athletic Shoes > Running Shoes

async function categorizeShoes(productDescription, apiKey) {
    const baseUrl = 'https://www.productcategorization.com/api/ecommerce/ecommerce_category6_get.php';
    const params = new URLSearchParams({query: productDescription, api_key: apiKey, data_type: 'google'});
    const response = await fetch(`${baseUrl}?${params}`);
    return response.json();
}

// Example: Categorize women's heels
categorizeShoes('Sam Edelman Hazel Pointed Toe Pump Nude Leather 3 inch Heel Size 8', 'your_api_key')
.then(result => console.log('Category:', result.category));

curl -X GET "https://www.productcategorization.com/api/ecommerce/ecommerce_category6_get.php" \
  -d "query=Timberland Premium 6 Inch Waterproof Boot Wheat Nubuck Mens" \
  -d "api_key=your_api_key_here" \
  -d "data_type=google"

# Response: {"category": "Apparel & Accessories > Shoes > Boots", "confidence": 0.98}