app_data/google/app_listings/categories

List of Google App Listings Categories for App Data 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 2023-05-02).

GET

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
`category`	string	name of the supported app category
`count`	integer	number of app listings that make up the supported app category

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/app_listings/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/app_listings/categories
	// in addition to 'google' you can also set other search engine
	// the full list of possible parameters is available in documentation
	$result = $client->get('/v3/app_data/google/app_listings/categories');
	print_r($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/app_listings/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/app_listings/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/app_listings/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/app_listings/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/app_listings/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": "0.1.20221214",
  "status_code": 20000,
  "status_message": "Ok.",
  "time": "0.1589 sec.",
  "cost": 0,
  "tasks_count": 1,
  "tasks_error": 0,
  "tasks": [
    {
      "id": "06141520-1535-0552-0000-7e639ee4d041",
      "status_code": 20000,
      "status_message": "Ok.",
      "time": "0.1018 sec.",
      "cost": 0,
      "result_count": 48,
      "path": [
        "v3",
        "app_data",
        "google",
        "app_listings",
        "categories"
      ],
      "data": {
        "api": "app_data",
        "function": "categories",
        "se": "google"
      },
      "result": [
        {
          "category": "Education",
          "count": 128024
        },
        {
          "category": "Tools",
          "count": 88667
        },
        {
          "category": "Business",
          "count": 74904
        },
        {
          "category": "Entertainment",
          "count": 71253
        },
        {
          "category": "Music & Audio",
          "count": 66304
        },
        {
          "category": "Lifestyle",
          "count": 63713
        },
        {
          "category": "Health & Fitness",
          "count": 57695
        },
        {
          "category": "Finance",
          "count": 49324
        },
        {
          "category": "Personalization",
          "count": 47978
        },
        {
          "category": "Productivity",
          "count": 46964
        },
        {
          "category": "Books & Reference",
          "count": 43983
        },
        {
          "category": "Food & Drink",
          "count": 42342
        },
        {
          "category": "Shopping",
          "count": 41192
        },
        {
          "category": "Travel & Local",
          "count": 32643
        },
        {
          "category": "Casual",
          "count": 31632
        },
        {
          "category": "Sports",
          "count": 30893
        },
        {
          "category": "Puzzle",
          "count": 30729
        },
        {
          "category": "Arcade",
          "count": 23512
        },
        {
          "category": "Communication",
          "count": 22342
        },
        {
          "category": "News & Magazines",
          "count": 21095
        },
        {
          "category": "Simulation",
          "count": 19409
        },
        {
          "category": "Social",
          "count": 18989
        },
        {
          "category": "Medical",
          "count": 18280
        },
        {
          "category": "Action",
          "count": 15995
        },
        {
          "category": "Photography",
          "count": 15044
        },
        {
          "category": "Maps & Navigation",
          "count": 12931
        },
        {
          "category": "Adventure",
          "count": 12381
        },
        {
          "category": "Educational",
          "count": 11743
        },
        {
          "category": "Auto & Vehicles",
          "count": 9915
        },
        {
          "category": "Art & Design",
          "count": 9483
        },
        {
          "category": "Role Playing",
          "count": 9015
        },
        {
          "category": "Strategy",
          "count": 7662
        },
        {
          "category": "Video Players & Editors",
          "count": 7207
        },
        {
          "category": "House & Home",
          "count": 6936
        },
        {
          "category": "Board",
          "count": 6772
        },
        {
          "category": "Trivia",
          "count": 6439
        },
        {
          "category": "Racing",
          "count": 6387
        },
        {
          "category": "Card",
          "count": 6098
        },
        {
          "category": "Events",
          "count": 5793
        },
        {
          "category": "Word",
          "count": 5669
        },
        {
          "category": "Beauty",
          "count": 4146
        },
        {
          "category": "Casino",
          "count": 3754
        },
        {
          "category": "Weather",
          "count": 3652
        },
        {
          "category": "Music",
          "count": 3582
        },
        {
          "category": "Dating",
          "count": 3281
        },
        {
          "category": "Parenting",
          "count": 1965
        },
        {
          "category": "Libraries & Demo",
          "count": 1680
        },
        {
          "category": "Comics",
          "count": 889
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}