Categories

Get Several Browse Categories

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Get a list of categories used to tag items in Spotify (on, for example, the Spotify player’s “Browse” tab).

get/browse/categories

Request

  • Base URL
    https://api.spotify.com/v1
  • URL
    https://api.spotify.com/v1/browse/categories
  • Auth
    OAuth 2
    Authorization code: https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize
    Token URL: https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token

Query parameters

localestring

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.<br/> Note: 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).

Example:sv_SE
limitinteger

The maximum number of items to return. Default: 20. Minimum: 1. Maximum: 50.

Example:10
offsetinteger

The index of the first item to return. Default: 0 (the first item). Use with limit to get the next set of items.

Example:5

Response

A paged set of categories

Example response

{
  "categories": {
    "href": "https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/shows?offset=0&limit=20\n",
    "limit": 20,
    "next": "https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/shows?offset=1&limit=1",
    "previous": "https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/shows?offset=1&limit=1",
    "total": 4,
    "items": [
      {
        "icons": [
          {
            "url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d00001e02ff9ca10b55ce82ae553c8228\n",
            "height": 300,
            "width": 300
          }
        ],
        "id": "equal",
        "name": "EQUAL"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Changes

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      removed the required property / from the response with the status

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      removed the required property / from the response with the status

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      removed the required property / from the response with the status

    • warning

      deleted the query request parameter country

    • info

      added subschema #2 to the response property allOf list for the response status