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Returns a list of categories that can be associated with YouTube videos.
Quota impact:
A call to this method has a
quota cost
of 1 unit.
Common use cases
Request
HTTP request
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videoCategories
Parameters
The following table lists the parameters that this query supports. All of the parameters listed are query parameters.
Parameters
|
Required parameters
|
part
|
string
The
part
parameter specifies the
videoCategory
resource properties that the API response will include. Set the parameter value to
snippet
.
|
Filters
(specify exactly one of the following parameters)
|
id
|
string
The
id
parameter specifies a comma-separated list of video category IDs for the resources that you are retrieving.
|
regionCode
|
string
The
regionCode
parameter instructs the API to return the list of video categories available in the specified country. The parameter value is an
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
country code.
|
Optional parameters
|
hl
|
string
The
hl
parameter specifies the language that should be used for text values in the API response. The default value is
en_US
.
|
Request body
Do not provide a request body when calling this method.
Response
If successful, this method returns a response body with the following structure:
{
"kind": "youtube#videoCategoryListResponse",
"etag":
etag
,
"nextPageToken":
string
,
"prevPageToken":
string
,
"pageInfo": {
"totalResults":
integer
,
"resultsPerPage":
integer
},
"items": [
videoCategory resource
]
}
Properties
The following table defines the properties that appear in this resource:
Properties
|
kind
|
string
Identifies the API resource's type. The value will be
youtube#videoCategoryListResponse
.
|
etag
|
etag
The Etag of this resource.
|
nextPageToken
|
string
The token that can be used as the value of the
pageToken
parameter to retrieve the next page in the result set.
|
prevPageToken
|
string
The token that can be used as the value of the
pageToken
parameter to retrieve the previous page in the result set.
|
pageInfo
|
object
The
pageInfo
object encapsulates paging information for the result set.
|
pageInfo.
totalResults
|
integer
The total number of results in the result set.
|
pageInfo.
resultsPerPage
|
integer
The number of results included in the API response.
|
items[]
|
list
A list of video categories that can be associated with YouTube videos. In this map, the video category ID is the map key, and its value is the corresponding
videoCategory
resource.
|
Errors
The following table identifies error messages that the API could return in response to a call to this method. Please see the
error message
documentation for more detail.
Error type
|
Error detail
|
Description
|
notFound (404)
|
videoCategoryNotFound
|
The video category identified by the
id
parameter cannot be found. Use the
videoCategories.list
method to retrieve a list of valid values.
|
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