Get Single Browse Category

GET/browse/categories/{category_id}

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

Path ParametersExpand Collapse

category_id: string

The Spotify category ID for the category.

Query ParametersExpand Collapse

locale: optional string

The desired language, consisting of an ISO 639-1 language code and an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code, joined by an underscore. For example: es_MX, meaning "Spanish (Mexico)". Provide this parameter if you want the category strings returned in a particular language.
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).

ReturnsExpand Collapse

id: string

The Spotify category ID of the category.

href: string

A link to the Web API endpoint returning full details of the category.

icons: array of ImageObject { height, url, width, published }

The category icon, in various sizes.

height: number

The image height in pixels.

url: string

The source URL of the image.

width: number

The image width in pixels.

published: optional boolean

The playlist's public/private status (if it should be added to the user's profile or not): true the playlist will be public, false the playlist will be private, null the playlist status is not relevant. For more about public/private status, see Working with Playlists

name: string

The name of the category.

published: optional boolean

Get Single Browse Category

curl https://api.spotify.com/v1/browse/categories/$CATEGORY_ID \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPOTIFY_ACCESS_TOKEN"

{
  "id": "equal",
  "href": "href",
  "icons": [
    {
      "height": 300,
      "url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d00001e02ff9ca10b55ce82ae553c8228\n",
      "width": 300,
      "published": true
    }
  ],
  "name": "EQUAL",
  "published": true
}

Returns Examples

{
  "id": "equal",
  "href": "href",
  "icons": [
    {
      "height": 300,
      "url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d00001e02ff9ca10b55ce82ae553c8228\n",
      "width": 300,
      "published": true
    }
  ],
  "name": "EQUAL",
  "published": true
}