Category Display

Returns categories and related data.

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Only API keys on our Conversations platform are eligible to use this API version. Refer to the Platforms section of our Platform & API Concepts documentation to learn which platform your API keys are on.

Examples

The following examples demonstrate common Conversations API display requests. For a complete overview of using the Conversations API to display data, refer to the Display tutorials.

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Demonstration purposes only. Do not reuse the API passkeys below in your application.

Requesting all categories

https://stg.api.bazaarvoice.com/data/categories.json?apiversion=5.4&passkey=caB45h2jBqXFw1OE043qoMBD1gJC8EwFNCjktzgwncXY4

Requesting all categories sorted alphabetically by name

https://stg.api.bazaarvoice.com/data/categories.json?apiversion=5.4&sort=Name:asc&passkey=caB45h2jBqXFw1OE043qoMBD1gJC8EwFNCjktzgwncXY4

Requesting all active categories

https://stg.api.bazaarvoice.com/data/categories.json?apiversion=5.4&filter=IsActive:eq:true&passkey=caB45h2jBqXFw1OE043qoMBD1gJC8EwFNCjktzgwncXY4

Requesting a category by ID

https://stg.api.bazaarvoice.com/data/categories.json?apiversion=5.4&passkey=caB45h2jBqXFw1OE043qoMBD1gJC8EwFNCjktzgwncXY4&filter=id:data-gen-t3jxodbtmy8n9fzn1vm88yjec

You can request for multiple categories by ID by separating the IDs with a comma.

  • e.g. filter=id:1234,5678,3456

Requesting categories by category ancestor ID

https://stg.api.bazaarvoice.com/data/categories.json?apiversion=5.4&passkey=caB45h2jBqXFw1OE043qoMBD1gJC8EwFNCjktzgwncXY4&filter=ancestorid:data-gen-p1ctf5q98ok8vbe88fqncwahl

Parameters

Name Description Required Default Value
ApiVersion The API version, e.g. 5.4. Yes
[FORMAT] Response format (json) Yes
PassKey API key is required to authenticate API user and check permission to access particular client's data. Yes
Callback Callback function name used with JSONP. Value is a string consisting of the following characters: a-z,A-Z,0-9,_ (excluding comma). See the JSONP tutorial for more information. No
Filter Filter criteria for primary content of the query. Multiple filter criteria are supported. No
Limit Max number of records returned. An error is returned if the value passed exceeds 100. No 10
Locale Locale to display Labels, Configuration, Product Attributes and Category Attributes in. The default value is the locale defined in the display associated with the API key. No
Offset Index at which to return results. By default, indexing begins at 0 when you issue a query. Using Limit=100, Offset=0 returns results 0-99. When changing this to Offset=1, results 1-100 are returned. The maximum supported value is 300000. No 0
Sort

Sort criteria for Categories. Multi-attribute sorting is supported.

No Id

Filter options

  • Each filter argument specifies the attribute to filter on followed by a comma-separated list of values. For instance, "Filter=Id:eq:5,6" will match all categories with Id 5 OR 6.
  • Advanced operators can be used to define filters. For instance, "Filter=Id:lte:50" will match all categories with an Id value of less than or equal to 50. All advanced operators are documented on the Conversations API page.
  • If a filter value contains a comma or a colon, that character needs to be escaped with a backslash (, or :). If a filter value contains an ampersand (&), the ampersand must be encoded in the filter value by replacing & with %26.
  • Multiple filters are allowed as URL parameters in which case filters are AND'ed. For instance, "Filter=AncestorId:eq:5&Filter=IsDisabled:eq:false" will match all categories that are not disabled and that have an ancestor category with Id 5.

The following table lists the attributes available for filtering.

Name Description
Id
The identifier of the Product Category.
AncestorId
Id of the Ancestor of the Category.
IsActive
Boolean flag indicating whether the Category is Active.
IsDisabled
Boolean flag indicating whether the Category is Disabled.
Name
The Name of the Category.
ParentId
The Id of the Parent of the Category.

Sort options

  • Sort order is required (asc or desc). There is no default.
  • Multi-attribute sorting is supported by using a comma separated list of sort criteria.
    • e.g. Sort=ParentId:asc,SubmissionTime:desc

The following table lists the attributes that are available for sorting.

Name Description
Id
The identifier of the Product Category.
IsActive
Boolean flag indicating whether the Category is Active.
IsDisabled
Boolean flag indicating whether the Category is Disabled.
Name
The Name of the Category.
ParentId
The identifier of the Parent of the Category.

Response format

This is a sample response for requesting reviews. Use the links above to see live examples.

{
    "Includes": { },
    "HasErrors": false,
    "Offset": 0,
    "TotalResults": 224775,
    "Locale": "en_US",
    "Errors": [ ],
    "Results": [
        {...}
        {...}
    ],
    "Limit": 2

}

Response elements

Name Description
Includes
Included results related to primary results. For example, with the request reviews.json?include=Comments, the Include node will be populated with comments associated with the reviews in the Results node.
HasErrors
Boolean value indicated if one of more errors have occurred. See Errors below.
Offset
Dataset offset used for pagination (passed as URL parameter in a query request). The maximum supported value is 300000.
TotalResults
Total number of records matched.
Locale
Indicates the language by region (language_region) associated with the client instance. This is the value used for field labels returned by the API, not the region from which the reviews originate.
Errors
Error section is populated instead of other fields if there is an error with a query syntax or problem executing a query.
Results
Section containing an array of primitive type object references matched by a query.
Limit
The total number of results returned, specified by user in the URL. Defaults to 10 and has a maximum of 100.

Error codes

Value Description
ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED

Insufficient privileges to perform the operation

ERROR_PARAM_INVALID_API_KEY

Invalid API Key value

ERROR_PARAM_INVALID_CALLBACK

Invalid JsonP callback function name

ERROR_PARAM_INVALID_FILTER_ATTRIBUTE

Invalid filter attribute name

ERROR_PARAM_INVALID_INCLUDED

Invalid parameter value

ERROR_PARAM_INVALID_LIMIT

Invalid limit value

ERROR_PARAM_INVALID_LOCALE

Invalid locale code

ERROR_PARAM_INVALID_OFFSET

Invalid offset value

ERROR_PARAM_INVALID_SORT_ATTRIBUTE

Invalid sort attribute name

ERROR_UNKNOWN

Unknown error (internal server error, for instance)