List Categories and Get Category Details
Learn how to list categories and extract details of those categories using the Vimeo API.
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This lesson will provide a brief overview of important endpoints from the categories section of the Vimeo API. A category defines a set of videos that belong to a specific genre. When videos are categorized, it's easier to find the information according to our interests.
In this lesson, we'll use the following two endpoints:
We’ll use the
{base_url}/categories
endpoint to get all categories.We’ll use the
{base_url}/categories/{categoryName}
endpoint to get a specific category.
Get all categories
First, we’ll extract all the categories available on Vimeo. To do this, we use the {base_url}/categories
endpoint, which utilizes the HTTP GET
request method.
Request parameters
Since it is a GET
request, ...