TechRepublic Categories API

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: TechRepublic WordPress REST Authors Categories API
  description: The TechRepublic WordPress REST API provides JSON endpoints for accessing posts, pages, categories, tags, authors, media, and other content types published on TechRepublic.com. Built on the standard WordPress REST API framework, it supports filtering, pagination, and full-text search across all TechRepublic technology news and analysis content.
  version: 2.0.0
  contact:
    url: https://www.techrepublic.com/about/
  license:
    name: WordPress License (GPL-2.0)
    url: https://wordpress.org/about/license/
servers:
- url: https://www.techrepublic.com/wp-json/wp/v2
  description: TechRepublic WordPress REST API v2
tags:
- name: Categories
paths:
  /categories:
    get:
      operationId: listCategories
      summary: List Categories
      description: Retrieve a collection of categories available on TechRepublic.
      tags:
      - Categories
      parameters:
      - name: page
        in: query
        description: Current page of the collection.
        required: false
        schema:
          type: integer
          default: 1
      - name: per_page
        in: query
        description: Maximum number of items to be returned in result set.
        required: false
        schema:
          type: integer
          default: 10
          maximum: 100
      - name: search
        in: query
        description: Limit results to those matching a string.
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: orderby
        in: query
        description: Sort collection by object attribute.
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - id
          - include
          - name
          - slug
          - include_slugs
          - term_group
          - description
          - count
          default: name
      - name: hide_empty
        in: query
        description: Whether to hide terms not assigned to any posts.
        required: false
        schema:
          type: boolean
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A 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 ID.
      tags:
      - Categories
      parameters:
      - name: id
        in: path
        description: Unique identifier for the category.
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A single category object.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Category'
        '404':
          description: Category not found.
components:
  schemas:
    Category:
      type: object
      description: A TechRepublic content category or topic area.
      properties:
        id:
          type: integer
          description: Unique identifier for the term.
        count:
          type: integer
          description: Number of published posts within the term.
        description:
          type: string
          description: HTML description of the term.
        link:
          type: string
          format: uri
          description: URL of the term.
        name:
          type: string
          description: HTML title for the term.
        slug:
          type: string
          description: An alphanumeric identifier for the term unique to its type.
        taxonomy:
          type: string
          description: Type attribution for the term.
        parent:
          type: integer
          description: The parent term ID.