WooCommerce · JSON Structure

Woocommerce Rest Api Product Category Structure

A product category used to organize the store catalog.

Type: object Properties: 9
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ProductCategory is a JSON Structure definition published by WooCommerce, describing 9 properties. It conforms to the https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0/# meta-schema.

Properties

id name slug parent description display image menu_order count

Meta-schema: https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0/#

JSON Structure

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{
  "$schema": "https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0/#",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/woocommerce/refs/heads/main/json-structure/woocommerce-rest-api-product-category-structure.json",
  "name": "ProductCategory",
  "description": "A product category used to organize the store catalog.",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "int32",
      "description": "Category unique identifier.",
      "example": 1
    },
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Category name.",
      "example": "Example Name"
    },
    "slug": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "URL-friendly category identifier.",
      "example": "string-value"
    },
    "parent": {
      "type": "int32",
      "description": "Parent category ID (0 for top-level categories).",
      "example": 1
    },
    "description": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Category description.",
      "example": "A sample description"
    },
    "display": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Category archive display type. Options: default, products, subcategories, both.",
      "example": "string-value"
    },
    "image": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "An image associated with a product.",
      "properties": {
        "id": {
          "type": "int32",
          "description": "Image unique identifier.",
          "example": 1
        },
        "src": {
          "type": "uri",
          "description": "Image URL.",
          "example": "https://example.com/path"
        },
        "name": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Image name.",
          "example": "Example Name"
        },
        "alt": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Image alternative text.",
          "example": "string-value"
        }
      }
    },
    "menu_order": {
      "type": "int32",
      "description": "Menu order position for sorting.",
      "example": 1
    },
    "count": {
      "type": "int32",
      "description": "Number of products in the category.",
      "example": 1
    }
  }
}

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