Get a single category

GET

/cms/category/{category_id}

const url = 'https://api.example.com/cms/category/example';
const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {'API-Key': '<API-Key>'}};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}

curl --request GET \
  --url https://api.example.com/cms/category/example \
  --header 'API-Key: <API-Key>'

Authorizations

ApiKeyAuth

Parameters

Path Parameters

category_id

required

string

Category ID or slug

Responses

200

Category

application/json

Category

API representation of a category

object

Category ID

string format: int64

layoutTemplate

One of:

PageTemplateMatch

PageTemplateMatch

The page builder template to render a category, publication, article, author or keyword with (the layoutTemplate field of their views). For category, author, keyword and article pages, prefer their /layout endpoint (e.g. GET /cms/category/{category_id}/layout), which returns the object and this template already filled in one call. Otherwise fetch the layout with GET /cms/layout/key/{key}, or GET /cms/layout/{id} when key is null.

object

Layout ID of the template

integer format: int64

key

Stable key of the template; null when not set

string

nullable

name

Template name

string

matchedBy

Why this template applies, most specific first: the content type (article templates only), the category itself, a parent category, or the publication; for author and keyword templates, the author or keyword itself

string

Allowed values: article_type category parent_category publication author keyword

targetType

What the template is used for

string

Allowed values: article_type category publication author keyword

targetId

ID of the content type, category, publication, author or keyword

integer format: int64

name

Category name

string

seo_name

Seo name

string

nullable

signature

Signature

string

nullable

slug

Slug

string

nullable

typeId

Type ID or object

mixed

nullable

parentId

Parent category ID

nullable

parent

Parent object

nullable

image

Image URL

string

nullable

cover

Cover URL

string

nullable

logo

Logo URL

string

nullable

paid

Paid flag

string

nullable

objectType

PHP class name of the object

string

url

Absolute URL

string

cssCode

CSS code

string

nullable

template

Template name

string

nullable

tagline

Tagline

string

nullable

link_param

Link parameter

string

nullable

description

Description

string

nullable

metaDescription

Meta description

string

nullable

iptcCode

IPTC Media Topic code

string

nullable

order

Order

nullable

pageId

Page ID

nullable

articlesCount

Articles count

integer

nullable

allowComments

Allow comments flag

string

nullable

accessType

Access type of the category (e.g., public, restricted)

string

nullable

status

Status

string

nullable

children

Array<object> recursive

Example

{
  "layoutTemplate": {
    "id": 31,
    "key": "opinion-article",
    "name": "Opinion article",
    "matchedBy": "article_type",
    "targetType": "article_type",
    "targetId": 14
  }
}

404

Not found