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commercetools Categories API

Organize products into hierarchical category structures.

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commercetools Categories API is one of 19 APIs that commercetools publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification and an AsyncAPI event-driven specification.

Tagged areas include Categories. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and an AsyncAPI specification.

This API exposes 6 operations across 3 paths, and defines 11 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.

Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://api.{region}.commercetools.com, https://import.{region}.commercetools.com.

6 operations 3 paths 11 schemas 1 DELETE2 GET3 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
1.0
Base URL
https://api.{region}.commercetools.com
Authentication
HTTP Bearer
Contact
commercetools Support
Terms of Service
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Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

commercetools Categories API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (bearerAuth). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • bearerAuth — OAuth 2.0 Bearer token obtained from the commercetools authentication service at https://auth.{region}.commercetools.com/oauth/token using client credentials f…

Paths & Operations 6

Across 3 paths, the API surfaces 6 operations — 1 DELETE, 2 GET, 3 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Categories 6

Organize products into hierarchical category structures.

GET
/{projectKey}/categories
List categories
listCategories 6 params → 200401
POST
/{projectKey}/categories
Create a category
createCategory 1 param body → 201400
GET
/{projectKey}/categories/{id}
Get a category by ID
getCategoryById 3 params → 200404
POST
/{projectKey}/categories/{id}
Update a category by ID
updateCategoryById 2 params body → 200
DELETE
/{projectKey}/categories/{id}
Delete a category by ID
deleteCategoryById 3 params → 200
POST
/{projectKey}/categories/import-containers/{importContainerKey}
Import categories
importCategories 2 params body → 201400

Schemas 11

The contract defines 11 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Category (13 properties), CategoryDraft (8 properties), CategoryImport (6 properties), CategoryPagedQueryResponse (5 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

Reference
object
A reference to another resource by its typeId and id.
2 properties 2 required
CategoryUpdate
object
Request body for updating a category.
2 properties 2 required
CategoryPagedQueryResponse
object
Paginated response containing a list of categories.
5 properties 5 required
Category
object
A category resource for organizing products in a hierarchical structure.
13 properties 6 required
CategoryDraft
object
Request body for creating a new category.
8 properties 2 required
LocalizedString
object
A map of locale keys to string values used for multilingual content. Keys follow IETF language tag format (e.g., 'en', 'de', 'en-US').
ImportResponse
object
The response returned after submitting an import request batch.
1 property 1 required
ErrorObject
object
An error object describing a validation or processing failure.
2 properties 2 required
ImportOperationStatus
object
The initial status of a single resource submission in an import batch.
3 properties 2 required
CategoryImport
object
A single category resource for import.
6 properties 3 required
CategoryImportRequest
object
A batch of category resources to import.
2 properties 2 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

commercetools-categories-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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API Details
ID
commercetools:commercetools-categories-api
Base URL
https://api.{region}.commercetools.com
Docs
https://docs.commercetools.com/api
Provider
commercetools
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