openapi_v2_categories
Categories V2
Query Amazon category hierarchy by ID, path, parent, or keyword.
Use this to discover category structure for filtering in other endpoints. Example: pass categoryKeyword="yoga" to find matching categories, or parentCategoryPath=["Sports & Outdoors"] to list child categories.
Query modes (mutually exclusive):
No parameters: Returns all root categories
categoryId: Get specific category by ID
categoryPath: Get specific category by path
parentCategoryId: Get children of parent category by ID
parentCategoryPath: Get children of parent category by path
categoryKeyword: Search categories by keyword
Related: /products/search accepts categoryPath. /markets/search uses exactly one of category.ids, category.path, or category.name; category.includeDescendantCategoryProducts controls whether each market's metrics include descendant-category products.
Responses:
200: Successful Response (Success Response) Content-Type: application/json
Example Response:
{
"success": true,
"meta": {
"requestId": "Requestid",
"timestamp": "Timestamp"
}
}Output Schema:
{
"properties": {
"success": {
"type": "boolean",
"title": "Success",
"description": "Whether the request was successful",
"default": true
},
"data": {
"title": "Data",
"description": "Response data payload"
},
"error": {
"description": "Error details if request failed"
},
"meta": {
"description": "Metadata for API responses.\n\nCredit fields follow the ADR-0003 parallel-fields strategy (Option 3):\n- `credits_remaining` / `credits_consumed` (int): legacy fields, rounded\n to whole credits, kept for zero-breaking-change to existing SDK clients.\n- `credits_remaining_exact` / `credits_consumed_exact` (float): new\n precision-aware fields for clients that opt in to decimal credits.\n\nSee ADR-0003 decision 5 and the \u00a78 deprecation timeline.\n\nTODO(2026-11, ADR-0003 \u00a78 +6mo): mark `credits_remaining` /\n`credits_consumed` as `deprecated=True` in their Field() definitions\nand announce in customer changelog.\nTODO(2027-05, ADR-0003 \u00a78 +12mo): remove the legacy int fields via a\nmajor-version bump of the OpenAPI surface.",
"properties": {
"requestId": {
"type": "string",
"title": "Requestid",
"description": "Unique request identifier"
},
"timestamp": {
"type": "string",
"title": "Timestamp",
"description": "Response timestamp in ISO 8601 format"
},
"total": {
"title": "Total",
"description": "Total number of records"
},
"page": {
"title": "Page",
"description": "Current page number"
},
"pageSize": {
"title": "Pagesize",
"description": "Number of records per page"
},
"totalPages": {
"title": "Totalpages",
"description": "Total number of pages"
},
"creditsRemaining": {
"title": "Creditsremaining",
"description": "Remaining API credits (rounded to whole credits; see creditsRemainingExact for precise value)"
},
"creditsConsumed": {
"title": "Creditsconsumed",
"description": "Credits consumed by this request (rounded; see creditsConsumedExact for precise value)"
},
"creditsRemainingExact": {
"title": "Creditsremainingexact",
"description": "Remaining API credits, precise to 1 decimal place"
},
"creditsConsumedExact": {
"title": "Creditsconsumedexact",
"description": "Credits consumed by this request, precise to 1 decimal place"
},
"tokensUsage": {
"description": "Provider token-usage block \u2014 populated on terminal video polls only, null on every non-video endpoint. See TokensUsage for its fields."
}
},
"type": "object",
"required": [
"requestId",
"timestamp"
],
"title": "ResponseMeta"
}
},
"type": "object",
"required": [
"meta"
],
"title": "OpenApiResponse[list[Category]]",
"examples": []
}422: Validation Error Content-Type: application/json
Example Response:
{
"detail": [
{
"loc": [],
"msg": "Message",
"type": "Error Type",
"ctx": {}
}
]
}Output Schema:
{
"properties": {
"detail": {
"items": {
"properties": {
"loc": {
"items": {},
"type": "array",
"title": "Location"
},
"msg": {
"type": "string",
"title": "Message"
},
"type": {
"type": "string",
"title": "Error Type"
},
"input": {
"title": "Input"
},
"ctx": {
"type": "object",
"title": "Context"
}
},
"type": "object",
"required": [
"loc",
"msg",
"type"
],
"title": "ValidationError"
},
"type": "array",
"title": "Detail"
}
},
"type": "object",
"title": "HTTPValidationError"
}Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| categoryId | No | Category identifier | |
| marketplace | No | Amazon marketplace code. Only 'US' is currently supported. | US |
| categoryPath | No | Category hierarchy from root to current level (e.g., ['Electronics', 'Computers', 'Laptops']) | |
| categoryKeyword | No | Filter by category name keyword (matches any level in category hierarchy, e.g., 'Electronics' or 'Laptops') | |
| parentCategoryId | No | Parent category ID | |
| parentCategoryPath | No | Parent category path |