# API Parameters

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**IMPORTANT!** The `engine` parameter should **always be set to `amazon`**!
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The Amazon API is a powerful Amazon scraping tool, made easy to use. Basically, in order to scrape Amazon, all you have to do is send a GET request to our [official endpoint,](https://docs.webscrapingapi.com/amazon-search-api/getting-started/access-the-api) followed by the parameters you chose to customise your request. 

The Amazon API uses general parameters (applicable to any search type) and search type specific parameters (applicable to specific search types only). **We will cover the search type specific parameters in each search category**.

Here is the full list of **the general parameters**:

<table><thead><tr><th width="259">Parameter</th><th width="109" align="center">Type</th><th width="374">Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><code>api_key</code> <br> <mark style="color:red;background-color:red;">Required</mark> </td><td align="center"><code>string</code></td><td>Specify your unique API access key to authenticate with the API. Your <a href="../access-the-api#the-api-key">API access key</a> can be found in your account dashboard.</td></tr><tr><td><code>engine</code><br> <mark style="color:red;background-color:red;">Required</mark> </td><td align="center"><code>string</code></td><td>The engine of the API. Needs to be set to <mark style="color:green;"><strong><code>amazon</code></strong></mark> for all Amazon API requests.</td></tr><tr><td><code>type</code><br> <mark style="color:red;background-color:red;">Required</mark> </td><td align="center"><code>string</code></td><td>The Amazon API uses <a href="../amazon-search-types">search types</a> in order to return categorised results.</td></tr><tr><td><code>amazon_domain</code></td><td align="center"><code>string</code></td><td>Represents the domain from amazon that you want to use for your search. (<a href="supported-domains">Supported domains</a>)</td></tr><tr><td><code>zip_code</code></td><td align="center"><code>string</code></td><td>The zipcode you want to use for your amazon search.</td></tr><tr><td><code>hl</code></td><td align="center"><code>string</code></td><td>The language you want to use for your amazon search.</td></tr><tr><td><code>gl</code></td><td align="center"><code>string</code></td><td>The country you want to use for your amazon search.</td></tr><tr><td><code>scroll_to_bottom</code></td><td align="center"><code>bool</code></td><td>Have the scraper perform a full scroll of the page. <strong>Set to <code>false</code> for faster response time.</strong></td></tr><tr><td><code>wait_bottom_carousel</code></td><td align="center"><code>bool</code></td><td>Wait until the bottom carousel is available in DOM, before returning the result. <strong>Set to <code>false</code> for faster response time.</strong></td></tr><tr><td><code>lazy_loading</code></td><td align="center"><code>int</code></td><td>Waiting time after the page was loaded before scraping. Measured in <code>ms</code>.</td></tr><tr><td><code>delivery_location</code></td><td align="center"><code>string</code></td><td>Simulate default delivery location based on proxy location. Supported options: <code>us</code>, <code>de</code>, <code>gb</code>, <code>ca</code>, <code>fr</code>, <code>jp</code>, <code>cn</code>, <code>au</code>, <code>es</code>, <code>br</code>, <code>in</code>, <code>mx</code>.</td></tr><tr><td><code>page</code></td><td align="center"><code>int</code></td><td>Specify which page Amazon should return </td></tr></tbody></table>