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Mastercard Categories API

The Categories API from Mastercard — 2 operation(s) for categories.

Mastercard Categories API is one of 249 APIs that Mastercard publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Categories. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, code examples, a changelog, a support channel, and a getting-started guide.

This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 11 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 2.0, at version 1.0.

Requests are made against the base URL https://api.example.com.

2 operations 2 paths 11 schemas 2 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 2.0
API Version
1.0
Base URL
https://api.example.com
Resource Areas
1

Paths & Operations 2

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

Categories 2
GET
/supported-merchant-categories
Provide Supported MCCs
GetSupportedMerchantCategories → 200
GET
/categories
Mastercard Get a List of Merchant Categories
getMerchantCategories → 200401403

Schemas 11

The contract defines 11 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Error (5 properties), Category (4 properties), Category_2 (2 properties), MerchantCategory (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

MerchantCategory
object
Information for a supported merchant category.
2 properties 2 required
X-MC-Correlation-ID
string
SupportedMerchantCategories
array
List of supported merchant categories.
Category
object
User understandable information about an MCC categorization.
4 properties
Errors
object
Only returned in the event of an error condition
1 property 1 required
MCMerchantCategory
object
This object represents one merchant category information.
1 property 1 required
ErrorResponse
object
Only returned in the event of an error condition
1 property 1 required
MCSupportedMerchantCategories
object
The response object that contains a list of supported merchant categories.
1 property 1 required
Category_2
object
Merchant Category Name and id
2 properties
Error
object
Details of the error condition such as the source of the error, reason code for the error, if the error is recoverable, and details about the error
5 properties 4 required
Categories
object
List of merchant categories
1 property

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

mastercard-categories-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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