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GET
/
v2
/
categories
/
{category_id}
v2 Category Detail
curl --request GET \
  --url https://api.globalwebindex.com/v2/categories/{category_id} \
  --header 'Authorization: <api-key>'
import requests

url = "https://api.globalwebindex.com/v2/categories/{category_id}"

headers = {"Authorization": "<api-key>"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.text)
const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: '<api-key>'}};

fetch('https://api.globalwebindex.com/v2/categories/{category_id}', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.globalwebindex.com/v2/categories/{category_id}",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: <api-key>"
],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}
package main

import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io"
)

func main() {

url := "https://api.globalwebindex.com/v2/categories/{category_id}"

req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

req.Header.Add("Authorization", "<api-key>")

res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

fmt.Println(string(body))

}
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.globalwebindex.com/v2/categories/{category_id}")
.header("Authorization", "<api-key>")
.asString();
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.globalwebindex.com/v2/categories/{category_id}")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = '<api-key>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
{
  "category": {
    "attribute_count": 123,
    "child_categories": "<array>",
    "child_questions": [
      {
        "accessible": true,
        "attribute_count": 123,
        "categories": "<array>",
        "code": "<string>",
        "datapoints": [
          {
            "accessible": true,
            "code": "<string>",
            "midpoint": {
              "value": 123
            },
            "name": "<string>",
            "order": {
              "value": 123
            }
          }
        ],
        "datasets": [
          {
            "base_audience_label": "<string>",
            "base_namespace_code": "<string>",
            "child_categories": "<array>",
            "code": "<string>",
            "depth": 123,
            "description": "<string>",
            "is_syndicated": true,
            "name": "<string>",
            "order": 123
          }
        ],
        "description": "<string>",
        "flags": [
          "<string>"
        ],
        "knowledge_base": "<string>",
        "message": "<string>",
        "name": "<string>",
        "namespace_code": "<string>",
        "notice": "<string>",
        "order": 123,
        "suffixes": [
          {
            "code": "<string>",
            "midpoint": {
              "value": 123
            },
            "name": "<string>",
            "order": {
              "value": 123
            }
          }
        ],
        "taxonomy_paths": [
          {
            "categories_lineage": "<array>",
            "dataset": {
              "base_audience_label": "<string>",
              "base_namespace_code": "<string>",
              "child_categories": "<array>",
              "code": "<string>",
              "depth": 123,
              "description": "<string>",
              "is_syndicated": true,
              "name": "<string>",
              "order": 123
            }
          }
        ],
        "unit": "<string>",
        "warning": "<string>"
      }
    ],
    "datasets": [
      {
        "base_audience_label": "<string>",
        "base_namespace_code": "<string>",
        "child_categories": "<array>",
        "code": "<string>",
        "depth": 123,
        "description": "<string>",
        "is_syndicated": true,
        "name": "<string>",
        "order": 123
      }
    ],
    "descendant_attributes": [
      {
        "datapoint_code": "<string>",
        "datapoint_name": "<string>",
        "namespace_code": "<string>",
        "question_code": "<string>",
        "question_name": "<string>",
        "suffix_code": "<string>",
        "suffix_name": "<string>"
      }
    ],
    "description": "<string>",
    "id": "<string>",
    "lineage": "<array>",
    "name": "<string>",
    "order": 123,
    "taxonomy_paths": [
      {
        "categories_lineage": "<array>",
        "dataset": {
          "base_audience_label": "<string>",
          "base_namespace_code": "<string>",
          "child_categories": "<array>",
          "code": "<string>",
          "depth": 123,
          "description": "<string>",
          "is_syndicated": true,
          "name": "<string>",
          "order": 123
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}
{
"code": 123,
"err": "<string>",
"type": "<string>"
}
{
"code": 123,
"err": "<string>",
"type": "<string>"
}
{
"code": 123,
"err": "<string>",
"type": "<string>"
}
{
"code": 123,
"err": "<string>",
"type": "<string>"
}

Authorizations

Authorization
string
header
required

Path Parameters

category_id
integer
required

ID of category requested

Query Parameters

include
string[]

Relationships to include in response, ATM supported is: children,lineage,attribute_count,datasets,descendant_attributes

Response

details about category

category
object