Manage Channel Categories
Understand how to manage Vimeo channel categories by adding channels to categories, retrieving all categories for a channel, and removing channels from categories using the Vimeo API. Explore API endpoints and methods required for these operations to effectively organize and control your Vimeo channels.
In this lesson, we'll learn:
How to add a channel to a specific category.
How to get all the categories to which a specific channel belongs.
How to remove a channel from a category.
We’ll use the following endpoints to perform those operations:
We’ll use the
{base_url}/channels/{newChannelID}/categories/{categoryName}endpoint to add and remove a channel from a specific category.We’ll use the
{base_url}/channels/{newChannelID}/categoriesendpoint to get all categories to which a channel belongs.
Note: The first endpoint requires the specific channel to belong to the authenticated user.
Vimeo categories
First, let's look at some of the Vimeo categories in the table below. You can also refer to this endpoint to get a list of all the categories.
Category Name | URL |
Ads and Commercials |
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Animation |
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Branded Content |
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Comedy |
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Documentary |
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