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# Categories Metadata

GET https://app.termina.ai/api/v1/data/benchmark/metadata/categories

Get metadata for benchmark categories.

Returns information about all enabled benchmark categories including:
- Category names and friendly display names
- Default user type for each category (business or consumer)

Reference: https://docs.termina.ai/api-reference/data/benchmark/get-categories-metadata

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — Bearer authentication of the form `Bearer <token>`, where token is your auth token.

## Servers

- `https://app.termina.ai` (Production server, default)
- `https://app.termina.dev` (Development server)
- `http://localhost:8000` (Local development server)

## Response

### 200

Successful Response

- `list of CategoryResponse`

## Types

### CategoryResponse

- `name` (string, required) — The name of the category.
- `friendly_name` (string, required) — The friendly displayable name of the category.
- `parent_name` (string, optional, nullable) — The name of the parent category.
- `preferred_user_type` (enum, optional) — The preferred user type for the category.
  - Allowed values: `business`, `consumer`, `supplier`, `asset`, `labor`, `business_user`
- `description` (string, optional, default: ) — A short description of the category.
- `long_description` (string, optional, default: ) — A long description of the category.
- `enabled` (boolean, optional, default: true) — Whether the category is enabled.

## Examples

**Response**

```json
[
  {
    "name": "saas",
    "friendly_name": "SaaS",
    "preferred_user_type": "business",
    "description": "Cloud-delivered software applications and business tools provided via subscription or usage-based models across industries.",
    "long_description": "SaaS companies deliver software applications and business tools as cloud-based services through subscription or usage-based models. This expansive category includes specialized business software like accounting platforms, CRM systems, HR tools, and salestech solutions. It encompasses vertical SaaS for specific industries including agtech for agriculture, edtech for education, govtech for government, and ecommerce support tools. The category also includes business intelligence and analytics platforms, compliance and regulatory software, workflow automation tools, industrial automation systems, and open source SaaS offerings. These solutions serve diverse market segments from consumer SaaS and SMB SaaS to mid-market and enterprise SaaS, as well as B2B2C models. Companies in this category focus on solving specific business problems through cloud-delivered software.",
    "enabled": true
  }
]
```

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://app.termina.ai/api/v1/data/benchmark/metadata/categories"

headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.json())
```

```javascript
const url = 'https://app.termina.ai/api/v1/data/benchmark/metadata/categories';
const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}
```

```go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://app.termina.ai/api/v1/data/benchmark/metadata/categories"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://app.termina.ai/api/v1/data/benchmark/metadata/categories")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```java
import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://app.termina.ai/api/v1/data/benchmark/metadata/categories")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .asString();
```

```php
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('GET', 'https://app.termina.ai/api/v1/data/benchmark/metadata/categories', [
  'headers' => [
    'Authorization' => 'Bearer <token>',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();
```

```csharp
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://app.termina.ai/api/v1/data/benchmark/metadata/categories");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer <token>");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift
import Foundation

let headers = ["Authorization": "Bearer <token>"]

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://app.termina.ai/api/v1/data/benchmark/metadata/categories")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "GET"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```