VideoCategories

A videoCategory resource identifies a category that has been or could be associated with uploaded videos.

Methods

The API supports the following methods for videoCategories resources:

list: Returns a list of categories that can be associated with YouTube videos. Try it now.

Resource representation

The following JSON structure shows the format of a videoCategories resource:

{
  "kind": "youtube#videoCategory",
  "etag": etag,
  "id": string,
  "snippet": {
    "channelId": "UCBR8-60-B28hp2BmDPdntcQ",
    "title": string,
    "assignable": boolean
  }
}

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#videoCategory`.
`etag`	`etag` The Etag of this resource.
`id`	`string` The ID that YouTube uses to uniquely identify the video category.
`snippet`	`object` The `snippet` object contains basic details about the video category, including its title.
`snippet.channelId`	`string` The YouTube channel that created the video category.
`snippet.title`	`string` The video category's title.
`snippet.assignable`	`boolean` Indicates whether videos can be associated with the category.