Zinc
A simple API to help your AI agent search and order online
Zinc launched on February 4, 2025 with 143 votes, #278 of 5,999 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
What it does
Real-time retail data and automated ordering through a single API. Fetch live prices, detailed catalog data, and order without managing procurement accounts. Build faster with developer-friendly RESTful API calls, robust docs, and ready-to-use code snippets.
Zinc is an API that covers the entire e‑commerce purchasing lifecycle, from discovery, to ordering, to tracking, to returns — across thousands of retailers
Your agent can one-shot a purchase, or try a thousand: search free, buy in one call, settle the charge in the same request. Fragile automations die. Zinc doesn’t — one integration to search, buy, track and return, kept working for you. Buy on the retailer accounts and pricing you already negotiated — even where the website shipped in 1996. Images, prices, weight, ratings and stock — read at the moment you ask. Not a catalog refreshed last week. One query reaches Amazon, Walmart, Target, Etsy and Shopify stores at once — structured results you can order from. Active Noise Cancellation, Adaptive Audio and Transparency mode. Up to 6 hours of listening on one charge and 30 hours with the…from zinc.com
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