---
title: "Get Several Browse Categories"
method: GET
path: "/browse/categories"
tags: ["Categories"]
deprecated: true
---

# Get Several Browse Categories

`GET /browse/categories`

> **Deprecated.**

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

## Query parameters

- `locale` string — The desired language, consisting of an [ISO 639-1](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-1) language code and an [ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2), joined by an underscore. For example: `es_MX`, meaning &quot;Spanish (Mexico)&quot;. 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)._
- `limit` integer — The maximum number of items to return. Default: 20. Minimum: 1. Maximum: 50.
- `offset` integer — The index of the first item to return. Default: 0 (the first item). Use with limit to get the next set of items.

## Response `200`

A paged set of categories

- object
  - `categories` object, required
    - `href` string, required — A link to the Web API endpoint returning the full result of the request
    - `limit` integer, required — The maximum number of items in the response (as set in the query or by default).
    - `next` string, nullable, required — URL to the next page of items. ( `null` if none)
    - `offset` integer, required — The offset of the items returned (as set in the query or by default)
    - `previous` string, nullable, required — URL to the previous page of items. ( `null` if none)
    - `total` integer, required — The total number of items available to return.
    - `items` CategoryObject[], required
      - `href` string, required — A link to the Web API endpoint returning full details of the category.
      - `icons` ImageObject[], required — The category icon, in various sizes.
        - `url` string, required — The source URL of the image.
        - `height` integer, nullable, required — The image height in pixels.
        - `width` integer, nullable, required — The image width in pixels.
      - `id` string, required — The [Spotify category ID](/documentation/web-api/concepts/spotify-uris-ids) of the category.
      - `name` string, required — The name of the category.

## Other responses

- `401` — Bad or expired token. This can happen if the user revoked a token or the access token has expired. You should re-authenticate the user.
- `403` — Bad OAuth request (wrong consumer key, bad nonce, expired timestamp...). Unfortunately, re-authenticating the user won't help here.
- `429` — The app has exceeded its rate limits.

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