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Getting Started with the Vimeo API in JavaScript

User Operations on the Category

Explore user operations on Vimeo categories by learning how to check if a user follows a category, make a user follow or unfollow a category, and retrieve all categories followed by a user using Vimeo API endpoints. This lesson provides a practical understanding of managing category subscriptions through HTTP requests in JavaScript.

We'll cover the following...

In this lesson, we'll learn about a few user-related operations on a category:

  • Check if a user follows a specific category

  • Allow a user to follow a specific category

  • Allow a user to unfollow a specific category

  • Get all the categories that a user follows

We’ll use the following endpoints to perform these operations:

  • We’ll use the {base_url}/users/{userID}/categories/{categoryName} endpoint to check, follow, and unfollow a category. These three functionalities are specified by the type of HTTP method.

  • We’ll use the {base_url}/users/{userID}/categories endpoint to get all categories followed by a user.

Check if a user follows a category

In this section, we'll go over an operation that we perform with the users/{userID}/categories/{cat ...