GuideCategories: list

Note: This is a deprecation announcement.

The guideCategories resource and the guideCategories.list method have both been deprecated as of September 9, 2020.

Returns a list of categories that can be associated with YouTube channels.

Quota impact: A call to this method has a quota cost of 1 unit.

Request

HTTP request

GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/guideCategories

Parameters

The table below 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 guideCategory 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 the YouTube channel category ID(s) for the resource(s) that are being retrieved. In a guideCategory resource, the id property specifies the YouTube channel category ID.
regionCode string
The regionCode parameter instructs the API to return the list of guide 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 will 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#guideCategoryListResponse",
  "etag": etag,
  "nextPageToken": string,
  "prevPageToken": string,
  "pageInfo": {
    "totalResults": integer,
    "resultsPerPage": integer
  },
  "items": [
    guideCategory 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#guideCategoryListResponse.
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 categories that can be associated with YouTube channels. In this map, the category ID is the map key, and its value is the corresponding guideCategory resource.

Errors

The table below 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) notFound The guide category identified by the id parameter cannot be found. Use the guideCategories.list method to retrieve a list of valid values.

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