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Your account will not be charged for using this API
This endpoint will provide you with a full list of app categories available on Google Play.
You can also download the full list of supported categories in the CSV format (last updated 2025-06-25).
Your account will not be charged for using this API
By calling this API you will receive the list of categories supported by App Data API.
As a response of the API server, you will receive JSON-encoded data containing a tasks array with the information about available categories.
| Field name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
version |
string | the current version of the API |
status_code |
integer | general status code you can find the full list of the response codes here |
status_message |
string | general informational message you can find the full list of general informational messages here |
time |
string | execution time, seconds |
cost |
float | total tasks cost, USD |
tasks_count |
integer | the number of tasks in the tasks array |
tasks_error |
integer | the number of tasks in the tasks array returned with an error |
tasks |
array | array of tasks |
id |
string | task identifier unique task identifier in our system in the UUID format |
status_code |
integer | status code of the task generated by DataForSEO; can be within the following range: 10000-60000 you can find the full list of response codes here |
status_message |
string | informational message of the task you can find the full list of general informational messages here |
time |
string | execution time, seconds |
cost |
float | cost of the task, USD |
result_count |
integer | number of elements in the result array |
path |
array | URL path |
data |
object | contains the parameters passed in the URL of the GET request |
result |
array | array of results |
categories |
array | contains full list of supported app categories |
Instead of ‘login’ and ‘password’ use your credentials from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-access
# Instead of 'login' and 'password' use your credentials from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-access
login="login"
password="password"
cred="$(printf ${login}:${password} | base64)"
curl --location --request GET "https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/app_data/google/categories"
--header "Authorization: Basic ${cred}"
--header "Content-Type: application/json" <?php
// You can download this file from here https://cdn.dataforseo.com/v3/examples/php/php_RestClient.zip
require('RestClient.php');
$api_url = 'https://api.dataforseo.com/';
try {
// Instead of 'login' and 'password' use your credentials from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-access
$client = new RestClient($api_url, null, 'login', 'password');
} catch (RestClientException $e) {
echo "n";
print "HTTP code: {$e->getHttpCode()}n";
print "Error code: {$e->getCode()}n";
print "Message: {$e->getMessage()}n";
print $e->getTraceAsString();
echo "n";
exit();
}
try {
// using this method you can get a list of categories
// GET /v3/app_data/google/categories
// in addition to 'google' you can also set other search engine
// the full list of possible parameters is available in documentation
$result = $client->get('/v3/app_data/google/categories');
print_r($result);
// do something with result
} catch (RestClientException $e) {
echo "n";
print "HTTP code: {$e->getHttpCode()}n";
print "Error code: {$e->getCode()}n";
print "Message: {$e->getMessage()}n";
print $e->getTraceAsString();
echo "n";
}
$client = null;
?>const axios = require('axios');
axios({
method: 'get',
url: 'https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/app_data/google/categories',
auth: {
username: 'login',
password: 'password'
},
headers: {
'content-type': 'application/json'
}
}).then(function (response) {
var result = response['data']['tasks'][0]['result'];
// Result data
console.log(result);
}).catch(function (error) {
console.log(error);
});from client import RestClient
# You can download this file from here https://cdn.dataforseo.com/v3/examples/python/python_Client.zip
client = RestClient("login", "password")
# using this method you can get a list of categories
# GET /v3/app_data/google/categories
# in addition to 'google' you can also set other search engine
# the full list of possible parameters is available in documentation
response = client.get("/v3/app_data/google/categories")
# you can find the full list of the response codes here https://docs.dataforseo.com/v3/appendix/errors
if response["status_code"] == 20000:
print(response)
# do something with result
else:
print("error. Code: %d Message: %s" % (response["status_code"], response["status_message"]))using Newtonsoft.Json;
using System;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace DataForSeoDemos
{
public static partial class Demos
{
public static async Task app_data_categories()
{
var httpClient = new HttpClient
{
BaseAddress = new Uri("https://api.dataforseo.com/"),
// Instead of 'login' and 'password' use your credentials from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-access
DefaultRequestHeaders = { Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic", Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("login:password"))) }
};
// using this method you can get a list of categories
// GET /v3/app_data/google/categories
// in addition to 'google' you can also set other search engine
// the full list of possible parameters is available in documentation
var response = await httpClient.GetAsync("/v3/app_data/google/categories");
var result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<dynamic>(await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());
// you can find the full list of the response codes here https://docs.dataforseo.com/v3/appendix/errors
if (result.status_code == 20000)
{
// do something with result
Console.WriteLine(result);
}
else
Console.WriteLine($"error. Code: {result.status_code} Message: {result.status_message}");
}
}
}The above command returns JSON structured like this:
{
"version": "0.1.20220420",
"status_code": 20000,
"status_message": "Ok.",
"time": "0.0557 sec.",
"cost": 0,
"tasks_count": 1,
"tasks_error": 0,
"tasks": [
{
"id": "04211836-2806-0435-0000-b2d10da73d5c",
"status_code": 20000,
"status_message": "Ok.",
"time": "0.0000 sec.",
"cost": 0,
"result_count": 1,
"path": [
"v3",
"app_data",
"google",
"categories"
],
"data": {
"api": "app_data",
"function": "categories",
"se": "google"
},
"result": [
{
"categories": [
"art_and_design",
"auto_and_vehicles",
"beauty",
"books_and_reference",
"business",
"comics",
"communication",
"dating",
"education",
"entertainment",
"events",
"finance",
"food_and_drink",
"health_and_fitness",
"house_and_home",
"libraries_and_demo",
"lifestyle",
"maps_and_navigation",
"medical",
"music_and_audio",
"news_and_magazines",
"parenting",
"personalization",
"photography",
"productivity",
"shopping",
"social",
"sports",
"tools",
"travel_and_local",
"video_players",
"android_wear",
"watch_face",
"weather",
"game",
"game_action",
"game_adventure",
"game_arcade",
"game_board",
"game_card",
"game_casino",
"game_casual",
"game_educational",
"game_music",
"game_puzzle",
"game_racing",
"game_role_playing",
"game_simulation",
"game_sports",
"game_strategy",
"game_trivia",
"game_word",
"family"
]
}
]
}
]
}