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BotFriendly Categories API

The Categories API from BotFriendly — 1 operation(s) for categories.

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: BotFriendly Categories API
  description: A directory of services AI agents can actually use. Query, filter, and discover bot-friendly APIs, tools, and merchants by category, interface (MCP, OpenAPI, llms.txt) and agent payment/commerce protocol.
  version: 1.0.0
  contact:
    url: https://botfriendly.xyz
servers:
- url: https://botfriendly.xyz/api/v1
tags:
- name: Categories
paths:
  /categories:
    get:
      operationId: listCategories
      summary: List all categories with service counts
      description: Every directory category (think = Models, see = Vision, hear-speak = Speech, create = Media, remember = Memory, search = Search, browse = Browsers, communicate = Messaging, execute = Compute, pay = Payments, shop = Merchants, markets = Markets, platforms = Platforms, identify = Identity, monitor = Observability, other = Other) with its label, description, aliases, and current service count. Category ids are the values accepted by the ?category= filter; aliases are older slugs that are still accepted.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: List of categories
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  ok:
                    type: boolean
                  data:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      type: object
                      properties:
                        id:
                          type: string
                          description: Value for the ?category= filter
                        label:
                          type: string
                          description: Human label (Models, Vision, Markets, …)
                        name:
                          type: string
                          description: Same as label; kept for older clients
                        icon:
                          type: string
                        description:
                          type: string
                        aliases:
                          type: array
                          items:
                            type: string
                          description: Older or merged slugs ?category= also accepts; each selects only its own listings
                        slugs:
                          type: array
                          items:
                            type: string
                          description: The category values listings in this group carry
                        service_count:
                          type: integer
      tags:
      - Categories