TechCrunch Categories API

openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: TechCrunch WordPress REST Authors Categories API
  description: TechCrunch is built on WordPress and exposes the standard WordPress REST API, providing JSON endpoints for accessing posts, categories, tags, authors, pages, and other content types. The API is available at the /wp-json/wp/v2/ base path and supports filtering, pagination, searching, and sorting across all TechCrunch content. TechCrunch uses a headless WordPress architecture with a React frontend, making the REST API the primary data layer for content delivery.
  version: v2
  contact:
    name: TechCrunch
    url: https://techcrunch.com/contact-us/
  license:
    name: Terms of Service
    url: https://techcrunch.com/terms-of-service/
servers:
- url: https://techcrunch.com/wp-json/wp/v2
  description: TechCrunch WordPress REST API
tags:
- name: Categories
  description: Post category taxonomy
paths:
  /categories:
    get:
      operationId: listCategories
      summary: List Categories
      description: Retrieve a list of all categories used on TechCrunch.
      tags:
      - Categories
      parameters:
      - name: page
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
          default: 1
      - name: per_page
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
          default: 10
          maximum: 100
      - name: search
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Limit results to matching a string.
      - name: orderby
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - id
          - include
          - name
          - slug
          - include_slugs
          - term_group
          - description
          - count
          default: name
      - name: order
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - asc
          - desc
          default: asc
      - name: hide_empty
        in: query
        schema:
          type: boolean
        description: Whether to hide terms not assigned to any posts.
      - name: parent
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
        description: Limit result set to terms assigned to a given parent ID.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: List of categories
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/Category'
  /categories/{id}:
    get:
      operationId: getCategory
      summary: Get Category
      description: Retrieve a specific category by its unique ID.
      tags:
      - Categories
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/id'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Category object
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Category'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
components:
  parameters:
    id:
      name: id
      in: path
      required: true
      schema:
        type: integer
      description: Unique identifier for the resource.
  schemas:
    Category:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: integer
        count:
          type: integer
          description: Number of published posts for the term.
        description:
          type: string
        link:
          type: string
          format: uri
        name:
          type: string
        slug:
          type: string
        taxonomy:
          type: string
          example: category
        parent:
          type: integer
    WPError:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
        message:
          type: string
        data:
          type: object
          properties:
            status:
              type: integer
  responses:
    NotFound:
      description: Resource not found
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/WPError'