When I send GET request to categories.json, I get subcategoryIds of Ids for any category but how do I get the corresponding names of subcategories using the API. Basically I want the name and id of all the categories/subcategories.

I am unable to find the corresponding names of subcategories. I have tried to parse the full response of GET request on /categories.json and I don’t see any field which gives me subcategory Name.

thanks for the reply. looking at the reverse engineer guide doesn’t really help me to be honest as I think some magic is going on here. would you be able to pinpoint how the subcategory names are rendered from that JSON response? I am also not seeing any relevant subsequent calls that could potenti…

answering my own question here… all categories of a site are listed in /sites.json. so you can use /catgories_and_latest for them main level categories and when you get across the subcategories ids for each main category you pick the subcategory name from the /sites.json response. I assume there a…

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osioke (Osioke Itseuwa) July 21, 2020, 11:34am 2

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