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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 value: "dinner"
country
string
A country: an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Provide this parameter to ensure that the category exists for a particular country.
Example value: "SE"
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 value: "sv_SE"

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 value: "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d00001e02ff9ca10b55ce82ae553c8228"
- height
  integer
  Required
  Nullable
  The image height in pixels.
  Example value: 300
- width
  integer
  Required
  Nullable
  The image width in pixels.
  Example value: 300
id
string
Required
The Spotify category ID of the category.
Example value: "equal"
name
string
Required
The name of the category.
Example value: "EQUAL"