Category | API reference

Basic information

POST /{shopId}/categories/{categoryId}

Creates a subcategory to an existing category. Providing attributes in the request is optional.

Authorisation

OAuth 2.0 Token required with scopes:

products_write

URI parameters

Name	Type	Description
`shopId`	string	The unique identifier of the shop. Required: `true` Example: `DemoShop`
`categoryId`	string	Required: `true`

Query parameters

Name	Type	Description
`locale`	string	Represents the language code according to ISO 639-1 and the country code according to ISO 3166-1. If not provided, the shop’s default language is used. We recommend to always send this parameter with your request. If the default language had been changed in the administration, it might take up to 1 day until this change affects the shop. Required: `false` Example: `en_US`

Request attributes

Name	Type	Description
	object of category (create request)

Request body

Media type application/json

{
  "name": "Accessories",
  "alias": "Accessories",
  "pageTitle": "Technic365 - Accessories",
  "description": "Accessories for headphones",
  "navigationCaption": "Technic365 - Accessories"
}

Response attributes

Name	Type	Description
	object of subcategory

Response

HTTP 200

Media type application/json

{
  "categoryId": "5742CDAC-4EC6-859E-15D4-D5809AB3AC2E",
  "alias": "Accessories",
  "name": "Accessories",
  "visible": false,
  "pageTitle": "Technic365 - Accessories",
  "navigationCaption": "Technic365 - Accessories",
  "description": "Accessories for headphones",
  "facetedSearchShowFacetsOnCategory": true ,
  "facetedSearchCategoryStartDepth": 3,
  "parent": {
    "rel": "parent",
    "href": "https://pm.epages.com/rs/shops/apidocu/categories/5171DD85-C092-46EB-2BEC-AC14145F9094",
    "title": "Categories"
  },
  "sfUrl": "http://pm.epages.com/epages/apidocu.sf/?ObjectPath=/Shops/apidocu/Categories/Accessories1",
  "links": [
    {
      "rel": "products",
      "href": "https://pm.epages.com/rs/shops/apidocu/products?categoryId=5742CDAC-4EC6-859E-15D4-D5809AB3AC2E"
    }
  ]
}