Utilities

Resources

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categories

Product category for organizing and classifying items in an e-commerce store. Supports hierarchical categories with parent-child relationships, visual styling, and item counts.

🎯 Request Builder

Endpoint Type

Count (1-100)

Skip Cache

Request URL

https://api.mockly.codes/categories?page=1&limit=10&count=10

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Configure your request and click Send Request to see the response here.

Endpoints

GET/categories

Get a collection of categories

Alternative: /commerce/categories

GET/categories/:id

Get a single category by ID

Alternative: /commerce/categories/:id

GET/categories/meta

Get resource metadata and schema

Alternative: /commerce/categories/meta

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How to Use Search

The search feature allows you to filter results by searching for text across all or specific fields. Choose between ?q= or ?search= parameter names.

1. Basic Search

Search across all text fields:

Basic Search

GET https://api.mockly.codes/categories?q=laptop

2. Search Specific Fields

Field-Specific Search

GET https://api.mockly.codes/categories?q=laptop&search_fields=name,description

💡 Pro Tips

•Search is case-insensitive and performs partial matching
•Without search_fields, all text fields are searched
•Combine with pagination to handle large result sets efficiently

Code Examples

JavaScript

Fetch Collection

// Get 10 categories
fetch('https://api.mockly.codes/categories?count=10')
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(data => console.log(data));

Python

Fetch with Requests

import requests

response = requests.get(
    'https://api.mockly.codes/categories?count=10'
)
data = response.json()

cURL

Command Line

curl "https://api.mockly.codes/categories?count=10"

Bypass Cache

Get Fresh Data

fetch('https://api.mockly.codes/categories?nocache=true')

Schema Properties

idinteger

Unique identifier for the category

Gen:random_int

namestring

Display name of the category (e.g., Electronics, Clothing, Books)

Gen:category

slugstring

URL-friendly identifier for the category used in web addresses

Gen:slug

descriptionstring

Brief description of what products belong to this category

Gen:sentence

parent_idinteger

ID of the parent category if this is a subcategory, null for top-level categories

Gen:random_int

orderinteger

Display order or sort position for the category in listings

Gen:random_int

iconstring

Icon identifier or name for visual representation of the category

Gen:word

colorstring

Hex color code or color name for category branding and visual distinction

Gen:color

items_countinteger

Total number of products currently assigned to this category

Gen:random_int

created_atstring

Timestamp when the category was created

Gen:past_datedate-time

Query Parameters

countinteger

Number of items to return (default: 10, max: 100)

seedinteger

Seed for reproducible data generation

nocacheboolean

Bypass cache and generate fresh data on every request