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List Categories and Get Category Details

Learn how to list categories and extract details of those categories using the Vimeo API.

This lesson will provide a brief overview of important endpoints from the categories section of the Vimeo API. A category defines a set of videos that belong to a specific genre. When videos are categorized, it's easier to find the information according to our interests.

In this lesson, we'll use the following two endpoints:

  • We’ll use the {base_url}/categories endpoint to get all categories.

  • We’ll use the {base_url}/categories/{categoryName} endpoint to get a specific category.

Get all categories

First, we’ll extract all the categories available on Vimeo. To do this, we use the {base_url}/categories endpoint, which utilizes the HTTP GET request method.

Request parameters

Since it is a GET request, the endpoint doesn’t take ...