images

List image categories

Changed on Oct 14, 2026

This endpoint lists the categories (Shutterstock-assigned genres) that images can belong to.

get/v2/images/categories

Request

Base URL
https://api.shutterstock.com
Auth
- HTTP basic
- or OAuth 2
  Authorization codehttps://accounts.shutterstock.com/oauth/authorize
  Token URLhttps://api.shutterstock.com/v2/oauth/access_token
TypeScript
https://skmtc.dev/shutterstock/apis/shutterstock-api-explorer/docs/v2/images/categories/get.ts
A function with typed inputs. Its response is checked against the schema.

Query parameters

language'ar' | 'bg' | 'bn' | 'cs' | 'da' | 'de' | 'el' | 'en' | 'es' | 'fi' | 'fr' | 'gu' | 'he' | 'hi' | 'hr' | 'hu' | 'id' | 'it' | 'ja' | 'kn' | 'ko' | 'ml' | 'mr' | 'nb' | 'nl' | 'or' | 'pl' | 'pt' | 'ro' | 'ru' | 'sk' | 'sl' | 'sv' | 'ta' | 'te' | 'th' | 'tr' | 'uk' | 'ur' | 'vi' | 'zh' | 'zh-Hant'

Language code

Example:cs

Language for the keywords and categories in the response

Response

messagestring

Server-generated message, if any

pageinteger

The current page of results

per_pageinteger

The number of results per page

total_countinteger

The total number of results across all pages

Example response

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "1",
      "name": "Animals/Wildlife"
    },
    {
      "id": "11",
      "name": "The Arts"
    }
  ],
  "page": 1,
  "per_page": 2,
  "total_count": 13
}

Changes

Oct 14, 2026b43cab3aaaaa Revision changes
- info
  added the optional property // to the response with the status
Jul 13, 2026d2e03e7f655d Revision changes
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  api operation id getImageCategories removed and replaced with listImageCategories
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  added the new enum value ar to the query request parameter language
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  added the new enum value bg to the query request parameter language
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  added the new enum value bn to the query request parameter language
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  added the new enum value gu to the query request parameter language
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  added the new enum value he to the query request parameter language
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  added the new enum value hi to the query request parameter language
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  added the new enum value hr to the query request parameter language
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  added the new enum value kn to the query request parameter language
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  added the new enum value ml to the query request parameter language
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  added the new enum value mr to the query request parameter language
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  added the new enum value or to the query request parameter language
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  added the new enum value sk to the query request parameter language
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  added the new enum value sl to the query request parameter language
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  added the new enum value ta to the query request parameter language
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  added the new enum value te to the query request parameter language
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  added the new enum value uk to the query request parameter language
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  added the new enum value ur to the query request parameter language

Operation history