---
title: "Index categories"
method: GET
path: "/index/categories"
tags: ["Public"]
---

# Index categories

`GET /index/categories`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://app.broadcastwell.com/api/v1`
- URL: `https://app.broadcastwell.com/api/v1/index/categories`
- Auth: none required

The 14 categories of the public Absence Index release 2026-09 with their vendor counts, 10 questions and 150 planned answers each, and the address of each category page. The same read as list_categories on the public connector. No key needed; 60 requests a minute and 1,000 a day per address.

## Response `200`

The categories

- object
  - `sample` boolean
  - `data` IndexCategoryList, required
    - `release` object, required
    - `framing` string, required
    - `totals` object, required
      - `categories` integer
      - `vendors` integer
    - `categories` object[], required
      - `id` string, required
      - `slug` string
      - `name` string, required
      - `definition` string
      - `vendors` integer, required
      - `questions` integer, required
      - `answers_planned` integer, required
      - `answers_captured_on` string, nullable
      - `page_url` string, required

## Other responses

- `404`: Nothing with that id is available to this key.
- `429`: Rate limit reached. Retry-After says when to retry.

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