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ServiceNow Categories API

Operations for browsing catalog categories.

ServiceNow Categories API is one of 63 APIs that ServiceNow 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, and an API reference.

This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 2 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version Yokohama.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://{instance}.service-now.com/api/sn_sc.

1 operations 1 paths 2 schemas 1 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
Yokohama
Base URL
https://{instance}.service-now.com/api/now/table
Authentication
HTTP Basic, OAuth 2.0
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 2

ServiceNow Categories API declares 2 security schemes for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicAuth). It supports OAuth 2.0 (oauth2) using the password flow. By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • basicAuth — Basic authentication with ServiceNow credentials.
  • oauth2 — OAuth 2.0 authentication using ServiceNow's OAuth provider.

Paths & Operations 1

Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Categories 1

Operations for browsing catalog categories.

GET
/servicecatalog/categories/{sys_id}
Servicenow Retrieve a Catalog Category
getCategory 1 param → 200404

Schemas 2

The contract defines 2 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Category (5 properties), Error (1 property). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

Error
object
1 property
Category
object
A catalog category.
5 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

servicenow-categories-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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