inventory_id

int

Catalog ID. The list of identifiers can be retrieved by the getInventories method (inventory_id field). To retrieve categories available for all catalogs created in BaseLinker, this field should be omitted.

The method returns the data in JSON format.

status	varchar(30)	SUCCESS - request executed correctly ERROR - an error occurred during an API request. Error details will be described in 2 additional returned fields: error_message and error_code
categories	array	An array of categories containing the fields listed below.
| - category_id	int	Category ID.
| - name	varchar(200)	Category name
| - parent_id	int	Parent category identifier.

Input data:
{} Output data:
{ "status": "SUCCESS", "categories": [ { "category_id": 5, "name": "Products", "parent_id": 0 }, { "category_id": 6, "name": "Textiles", "parent_id": 5 } ] } A sample request in PHP:
<?php $methodParams = '{}'; $apiParams = [ "method" => "getInventoryCategories", "parameters" => $methodParams ]; $curl = curl_init("https://api.baselinker.com/connector.php"); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["X-BLToken: xxx"]); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($apiParams)); $response = curl_exec($curl);