PodcastIndex Categories API
Categories used by the Podcast Index
Categories used by the Podcast Index
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openapi: 3.2.0
info:
version: 1.12.1
title: PodcastIndex.org Add Categories API
termsOfService: https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/legal/blob/main/TermsOfService.md
contact:
email: info@podcastindex.org
url: https://podcastindex.org/
license:
name: MIT
url: https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/docs-api/blob/master/LICENSE
x-logo:
url: logo.svg
href: /
description: "Download the openapi spec in [json](pi_api.json) or [yaml](pi_api.yaml) format.\n\n# Overview\n\nThe Podcast Index (Podcast Index LLC) is a software developer focused partnership that provides tools and data to\nanyone who aspires to create new and exciting Podcast experiences without the heavy lifting of indexing,\naggregation and data management.\n\n# Example Code\n\nUsers have provided example code for working the API in the following languages:\n\n - [AWS Lambda - python](https://github.com/tbowers/python-podcastindex-org-lambda)\n - [Bash](https://github.com/suorcd/Bash-podcastindex-org-example)\n - [C#](https://github.com/ComicStrip/csharp-podcastindex-org-example)\n - [Elisp](https://github.com/sabexx/elisp-example)\n - [Flutter/Dart](https://github.com/crediblecreative/flutter-dart-podcastindex-org-example)\n - [Go](https://github.com/ComicStrip/Go-podcastindex-org-example)\n - [Go](https://github.com/kilobit/podcast-index-client)\n - [Java](https://github.com/ComicStrip/Java-podcastindex-org-example)\n - [Java](https://github.com/stucoates/PodcastIndexJavaClient)\n - [Node.js](https://github.com/ComicStrip/node.js-podcastindex-org-example)\n - [PHP](https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/example-code)\n - [Python](https://github.com/tbowers/python-podcastindex-org-example)\n - [Swift](https://github.com/ComicStrip/Swift-podcastindex-org-example)\n - ... [More](https://github.com/Podcastindex-org-Examples)\n\nDon't see your desired language, create an example repo and create a\n[Pull Request](https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/docs-api/pulls) with a link to your example code project!\n\n# Libraries\n\nUser created libraries for working with the API:\n\n - Java\n - [podcast4j](https://github.com/yusufyilmazfr/podcast4j)\n - .NET\n - [PodcastIndexSharp](https://www.nuget.org/packages/PodcastIndexSharp)\n - Node.js/npm/yarn\n - [podcast-index-api](https://www.npmjs.com/package/podcast-index-api)\n - [podcastdx-client](https://www.npmjs.com/package/podcastdx-client)\n - PHP\n - [podcastindex-php](https://github.com/LowSociety/podcastindex-php)\n - Python/pip\n - [python-podcastindex](https://pypi.org/project/python-podcastindex/)\n - R\n - [podindexr](https://github.com/rpodcast/podindexr)\n - Ruby\n - [podcast-index](https://github.com/jasonyork/podcast-index)\n - Swift\n - [PodcastIndexKit](https://github.com/SparrowTek/PodcastIndexKit)\n - Kotlin\n - [PodcastIndex-SDK](https://github.com/mr3y-the-programmer/PodcastIndex-SDK)\n - Go\n - [podcastindex](https://github.com/jjgmckenzie/podcastindex)\n - [podcastindex-go](https://github.com/koalahl/podcastindex-go)\n\nAre we missing a library? Did you create one for a different language? Create a\n[Pull Request](https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/docs-api/pulls) with a link to the new library!\n\n# Postman\n\nA collection file for use in the [Postman](https://www.postman.com/) application is available for this API.\n\n 1. Download the contents of the [Postman Docs](https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/docs-api/tree/master/Postman%20Docs) folder.\n 2. Import the `PodcastIndex.postman_collection.json` collection to Postman\n 3. Import the `PodcastIndexOrgEnvironment.postman_environment.json` to Postman\n 4. Click \"Environments\" on the left sidebar\n 5. Select the checkbox next to the PodcastIndexOrgEnvironment entry\n 6. Set `AuthKey` and `SeceretKey` values under the \"Current Value\" column using your API information\n 7. Click \"Collections\" from the sidebar\n 8. Select PodcastIndex\n 9. Select and run the endpoint to test\n\n# Contributing\n\nThe source for this API documentation is available at\n[https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/docs-api](https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/docs-api).\nSubmit an Issue or create a Pull Request.\n\n# Authentication Details\n\nSending an API request is easy. We use an Amazon-style request authorization token to secure each request.\n\n\nRegister for a free API key at https://api.podcastindex.org/\n\n\nThese headers parameters are required for each request: `User-Agent`, `X-Auth-Date`, `X-Auth-Key`, `Authorization`\n\n\nSee [Authentication](#auth) for description of parameters.\n\n# Legal\n\nLegal\n\n - [Privacy Policy](https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/legal/blob/main/PrivacyPolicy.md)\n - [Terms of Service](https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/legal/blob/main/TermsOfService.md)\n - [License](https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/docs-api/blob/master/LICENSE)\n"
servers:
- url: https://api.podcastindex.org/api/1.0
tags:
- name: Categories
description: 'Categories used by the Podcast Index
'
paths:
/categories/list:
get:
tags:
- Categories
summary: List
description: 'Return all the possible categories supported by the index.
Example: https://api.podcastindex.org/api/1.0/categories/list?pretty
'
operationId: categories/list
security:
- API-Key: []
User-Agent: []
Date: []
Authorization: []
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/pretty'
responses:
'200':
$ref: '#/components/responses/categories_list'
'400':
$ref: '#/components/responses/400'
'401':
$ref: '#/components/responses/401'
components:
schemas:
description_response:
description: 'Description of the response
'
type: string
example: Found matching feed
count:
description: 'Number of items returned in request
'
type: integer
example: 1
feed_categories:
type: object
properties:
id:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/id_category'
name:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/name_category'
feeds_categories:
description: 'List of categories
'
type:
- array
- 'null'
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/feed_categories'
name_category:
description: 'The category name.
'
type: string
example: Books
id_category:
description: 'The internal PodcastIndex.org category ID.
'
type: integer
example: 2
status:
description: 'Indicates API request status
'
type: string
enum:
- 'true'
- 'false'
example: 'true'
responses:
categories_list:
description: Success
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
status:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/status'
feeds:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/feeds_categories'
count:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/count'
description:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/description_response'
'400':
description: Invalid request
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
status:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/status'
description:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/description_response'
example:
status: 'false'
description: Invalid parameters
'401':
description: Not authenticated
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: string
example: Authorization header value either not set or blank.
parameters:
pretty:
name: pretty
in: query
description: 'If present, makes the output “pretty” to help with debugging.
Parameter shall not have a value
'
schema:
type: boolean
allowEmptyValue: true
securitySchemes:
User-Agent:
type: apiKey
in: header
name: User-Agent
description: 'Please identify the system/product you are using to make this request.
*Example*: `SuperPodcastPlayer/1.3`
'
API-Key:
type: apiKey
in: header
name: X-Auth-Key
description: 'Your API key string
*Example*: `UXKCGDSYGUUEVQJSYDZH`
'
Date:
type: apiKey
in: header
name: X-Auth-Date
description: 'The current UTC unix epoch time as a string. 3 minute window.
This value is an integer; round down if needed. The value shall not include a decimal point.
Value generated should match the value shown on the website https://www.epochconverter.com/.
*Example*: `1613713388`
'
Authorization:
type: apiKey
in: header
name: Authorization
description: "A SHA-1 hash of the `X-Auth-Key`, the corresponding secret and the `X-Auth-Date` value concatenated as a string.\nThe resulting hash should be encoded as a hexadecimal value, two digits per byte, using lower case letters for\nthe hex digits \"a\" through \"f\".\n\n\nThe Authorization header is computed with something like this (pseudo-code):\n\n authHeader = sha1(apiKey+apiSecret+unixTime)\n\nExample value, uses example values of `X-Auth-Key` and `X-Auth-Date` and an api secret of\n`yzJe2eE7XV-3eY576dyRZ6wXyAbndh6LUrCZ8KN|`\n\n\n*Example*: `UXKCGDSYGUUEVQJSYDZH`\n"