Most people who reach this page search for a Flipkart proxy from outside India, most of them from the United States. Some want to shop or compare prices. Others want Flipkart product data. This page answers both from what Flipkart publishes and from what its site did to our server. The short answer: Flipkart opened for our US server without a proxy. Its terms forbid bots and scrapers, and it offers product data through an affiliate API.
What Flipkart did to our server
We sent plain requests from our server in St. Louis on 27 September 2026, with a browser user agent and no cookies or JavaScript.
| request | answer |
|---|---|
| the front page | HTTP 200, the full page |
| a search for iphone 15 | HTTP 200, 24 products with rupee prices |
| the Affiliate API, without keys | HTTP 401, Invalid Headers |
So a US address is not shut out of Flipkart, at least for this search. The prices came in rupees, and the search returned 24 distinct products. We did not open the same search from India, so this page does not say whether an Indian address sees other prices or more products.
What the Flipkart terms say
The terms of use are direct about automated access. They say: "You shall not use any" deep-link, page-scrape, robot or spider, "or other automatic device, program, algorithm or methodology, or any similar or equivalent manual process, to access, acquire, copy or monitor any portion of the Platform or any Content". Monitoring prices by script is monitoring a portion of the platform, so the clause covers it.
The official route: the Affiliate API
Flipkart offers product data to members of its affiliate program, through the Affiliate API. Its reference lists these calls:
| call | what it returns |
|---|---|
| product feed listing | every category in the catalog, with feed links |
| product feed | all products of one category |
| delta feed | the products of a category that changed since a version |
| feed download | CSV files of the product feeds |
| keyword search | at most 10 products for each search |
| product ID search | the product for a given ID |
Every call carries two headers. Fk-Affiliate-Id holds your affiliate tracking ID, and Fk-Affiliate-Token holds your API token. A request without them got HTTP 401, "Invalid Headers", from our server. The reference adds one rule for links. Product URLs from the feeds need the affid parameter, or the affiliate tracking does not work.
So the API needs no proxy. It runs on your credentials, from wherever your server is. For price work across whole categories, the feeds and delta feeds are the route; keyword search is for small lookups.
If you use proxies for other work
Nothing on this page routes Flipkart traffic through a proxy: the site opened without one, and the terms forbid bots and scrapers. Our page on proxies for Walmart covers another large store. For the basics, see what a residential proxy is. Our free proxy list and free checker cost nothing, and our residential traffic starts at $0.44/GB.
The limits of this page
We made plain requests without JavaScript or cookies, from one server in the United States, and ran one search. We did not log in, buy anything, or compare the results with an Indian address. We are not a Flipkart affiliate, so we did not call the API with real credentials. The terms page carries no date. This page is due for a check by 28 December 2026.
Sources
We read every source below on 27 September 2026.
- Flipkart, Terms of Use.
- Flipkart Affiliate, Product APIs Reference, Affiliate API 1.0 documentation.
- Our requests to Flipkart and to the Affiliate API from our own server, 27 September 2026.
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