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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"
endpointhttps://api.spotify.com/v1/browse/categories/{category_id}category_idlocale

Response sample

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