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Get Single Browse Category

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

Request

category_id
string
Required
The Spotify category ID for the category.
Example: dinner
locale
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).
Example: locale=sv_SE

Response

A category

href
string
Required
A link to the Web API endpoint returning full details of the category.
Required
The category icon, in various sizes.
- url
  string
  Required
  The source URL of the image.
  Example: "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d00001e02ff9ca10b55ce82ae553c8228"
- height
  integer
  Required
  Nullable
  The image height in pixels.
  Example: 300
- width
  integer
  Required
  Nullable
  The image width in pixels.
  Example: 300
id
string
Required
The Spotify category ID of the category.
Example: "equal"
name
string
Required
The name of the category.
Example: "EQUAL"

Response sample

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