Manage Channel Categories
Explore how to manage Vimeo channel categories using the Vimeo API. Learn to add channels to categories, retrieve all categories for a channel, and remove channels from categories through specific API endpoints. This lesson helps you understand practical API calls and HTTP methods to streamline channel category management.
Overview
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/{NEW_CHANNEL_ID}/categories/{category_name}endpoint to add and remove a channel from a specific category. - We’ll use the
{BASE_URL}/channels/{NEW_CHANNEL_ID}/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 ...