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List Categories and Get Category Details

List Categories and Get Category Details

Learn how to list categories and extract details of those categories using the Vimeo API.

Overview

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/{category_name} 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, ...