In case you are developing a third-party application on Magento or integrating another storefront with your Magento 2 admin panel, you may want to display the product categories. Magento 2 provides powerful APIs, making it highly flexible platform eCommerce platform. By default, the platform provides Magento 2 API to get all product categories in the store. I have provided complete guide to Magento 2 API \u2013 Get All Categories <\/strong><\/em>in this post. And if after saving the category you get an notification of \u201csomething went wrong while saving the category\u201d then solve category save error in Magento<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let\u2019s begin!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Getting all categories in Magento 2<\/a> requires admin access and therefore the client needs to pass admin token along with the API request for authentication. You can read this guide on Magento 2 API \u2013 Get Admin Token<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In order to get all categories in Magento 2 through API, we\u2019ll be making a GET request to store_url\/categories\/<\/em> and pass the admin token to authorize the access. Here is how to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Method: <\/strong>GET<\/p>\n\n\n\n URL: <\/strong>store_url\/categories\/<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Authorization Type: <\/strong>Bearer Token<\/p>\n\n\n\n Token: <\/strong><Admin Token><\/p>\n\n\n\n Response:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n On the authorization of request, Magento returns the list of all active categories in the store through API response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you are developing a mobile app or third-party application based on Magento, you may require to fetch and display all the categories in the store. You can follow this complete guide to Magento 2 API \u2013 get all categories to do that. I hope you will find this guide useful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In case you still have any doubts or queries regarding Magento 2, feel free to comment. I would be happy to help you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Do not forget to share this Magento 2 API guide with your developer friends via social media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks for reading! <\/p>\n\n\n\nHow to Get All Categories Using Magento 2 API?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n{\n \"items\": [\n {\n \"id\": 3,\n \"parent_id\": 2,\n \"name\": \"Gear\",\n \"is_active\": true,\n \"position\": 4,\n \"level\": 2,\n \"children\": \"4,5,6\",\n \"created_at\": \"2020-11-30 12:22:20\",\n \"updated_at\": \"2020-11-30 12:22:20\",\n \"path\": \"1\/2\/3\",\n \"available_sort_by\": [],\n \"include_in_menu\": true,\n \"custom_attributes\": [\n {\n \"attribute_code\": \"display_mode\",\n \"value\": \"PAGE\"\n },\n {\n \"attribute_code\": \"is_anchor\",\n \"value\": \"0\"\n },\n {\n \"attribute_code\": \"path\",\n \"value\": \"1\/2\/3\"\n },\n {\n \"attribute_code\": \"children_count\",\n \"value\": \"3\"\n },\n {\n \"attribute_code\": \"url_key\",\n \"value\": \"gear\"\n },\n {\n \"attribute_code\": \"url_path\",\n \"value\": \"gear\"\n }\n ]\n },\n ],\n}<\/pre>\n\n\n\nConclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n