Medusa Product Categories API
Products can be categorized into categories.Categories are nested and their heirarchy can be managed, giving admin users flexibility in how they categorize their products.These API routes allow admin users to manage categories and the products in them.
Medusa Product Categories API is one of 82 APIs that Medusa publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Product Categories. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, and authentication docs.
This API exposes 8 operations across 5 paths, and defines 28 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 2.19.0.
Requests are made against 2 base URLs: http://localhost:9000, https://api.medusajs.com.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 4
Medusa Product Categories API declares
4 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (api_token).
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (jwt_token).
An API key is passed in the cookie as connect.sid (cookie_auth).
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (reset_password).
Paths & Operations 8
Across 5 paths, the API surfaces 8 operations — 1 DELETE, 4 GET, 3 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Products can be categorized into categories. Categories are nested and their heirarchy can be managed, giving admin users flexibility in how they categorize their products. These…
Schemas 28
The contract defines 28 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are BaseProduct (31 properties), StoreProduct (31 properties), StoreProductVariant (28 properties), BaseProductCategory (15 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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