Spotify Web API
  1. category-browse
Spotify Web API
  • category-albums
    • Get Multiple Albums
      GET
    • Get an Album
      GET
    • Get an Album's Tracks
      GET
  • category-artists
    • Get Multiple Artists
      GET
    • Get an Artist
      GET
    • Get an Artist's Albums
      GET
    • Get an Artist's Related Artists
      GET
    • Get an Artist's Top Tracks
      GET
  • category-tracks
    • Get Audio Analysis for a Track
      GET
    • Get Audio Features for Several Tracks
      GET
    • Get Audio Features for a Track
      GET
    • Get Several Tracks
      GET
    • Get a Track
      GET
  • category-browse
    • Get All Categories
      GET
    • Get a Category
      GET
    • Get a Category's Playlists
      GET
    • Get All Featured Playlists
      GET
    • Get All New Releases
      GET
    • Get Recommendations
      GET
    • Get Recommendation Genres
      GET
  • category-episodes
    • Get Multiple Episodes
      GET
    • Get an Episode
      GET
  • category-markets
    • Get Available Markets
      GET
  • category-users-profile
    • Get Current User's Profile
    • Get a User's Profile
  • category-library
    • Remove Albums for Current User
    • Get User's Saved Albums
    • Save Albums for Current User
    • Check User's Saved Albums
    • Remove User's Saved Episodes
    • Get User's Saved Episodes
    • Save Episodes for User
    • Check User's Saved Episodes
    • Remove User's Saved Shows
    • Get User's Saved Shows
    • Save Shows for Current User
    • Check User's Saved Shows
    • Remove User's Saved Tracks
    • Get User's Saved Tracks
    • Save Tracks for User
    • Check User's Saved Tracks
  • category-follow
    • Unfollow Artists or Users
    • Get User's Followed Artists
    • Follow Artists or Users
    • Get Following State for Artists/Users
    • Unfollow Playlist
    • Follow a Playlist
    • Check if Users Follow a Playlist
  • category-player
    • Get Information About The User's Current Playback
    • Transfer a User's Playback
    • Get the User's Currently Playing Track
    • Get a User's Available Devices
    • Skip User’s Playback To Next Track
    • Pause a User's Playback
    • Start/Resume a User's Playback
    • Skip User’s Playback To Previous Track
    • Add an item to queue
    • Get Current User's Recently Played Tracks
    • Set Repeat Mode On User’s Playback
    • Seek To Position In Currently Playing Track
    • Toggle Shuffle For User’s Playback
    • Set Volume For User's Playback
  • category-playlists
    • Get a List of Current User's Playlists
    • Get a Playlist
    • Change a Playlist's Details
    • Get a Playlist Cover Image
    • Upload a Custom Playlist Cover Image
    • Remove Items from a Playlist
    • Get a Playlist's Items
    • Add Items to a Playlist
    • Reorder or Replace a Playlist's Items
    • Get a List of a User's Playlists
    • Create a Playlist
  • category-personalization
    • Get a User's Top Artists and Tracks
  • category-search
    • Search for an Item
  • category-shows
    • Get Multiple Shows
    • Get a Show
    • Get a Show's Episodes
  1. category-browse

Get a Category

Developing
GET
/browse/categories/{category_id}
category-browse
Get a single category used to tag items in Spotify (on, for example, the Spotify player's "Browse" tab).
Request Request Example
Shell
JavaScript
Java
Swift
curl --location --request GET 'https://api.spotify.com/v1/browse/categories/' \
--header 'Authorization;'
Response Response Example
200 - Example 1
{
  "href": "string",
  "icons": [
    {
      "height": 0,
      "url": "string",
      "width": 0
    }
  ],
  "id": "string",
  "name": "string"
}

Request

Path Params
category_id
string 
required
The Spotify category ID for the category.
Query Params
country
string 
optional
A country: an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Provide this parameter to ensure that the category exists for a particular country.
locale
string 
optional
The desired language, consisting of an ISO 639-1 language code and an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code, joined by an underscore. For example: es_MX, meaning "Spanish (Mexico)". Provide this parameter if you want the category strings returned in a particular language. Note that, if locale is not supplied, or if the specified language is not available, the category strings returned will be in the Spotify default language (American English).
Header Params
Authorization
string 
required
A valid user access token or your client credentials.

Responses

🟢200On success, the HTTP status code in the response header is `200` OK and the response body contains a [category object](#categoryobject) in JSON format. On error, the header status code is an [error code](https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api
application/json
Body
href
string 
optional
A link to the Web API endpoint returning full details of the category.
icons
array[object (ImageObject) {3}] 
optional
The category icon, in various sizes.
height
integer <int32>
optional
The image height in pixels.
url
string 
optional
The source URL of the image.
width
integer <int32>
optional
The image width in pixels.
id
string 
optional
The Spotify category ID of the category.
name
string 
optional
The name of the category.
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Modified at 2022-09-12 10:04:50
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