# Kick Subcategories API Documentation

Retrieve the entire subcategory taxonomy in one call. The upstream payload is large and changes rarely, so it is cached; use this instead of walking the upstream paginator. The subcategory slug returned here is the identifier the category clip feed expects.

- **Documentation:** [https://scrappa.co/docs/kick-api/kick_subcategories](https://scrappa.co/docs/kick-api/kick_subcategories)
- **API group:** Kick API
- **Endpoint:** `GET https://scrappa.co/api/kick/v1/subcategories`

## Authentication

Send your Scrappa API key in the `X-API-KEY` request header. Paid endpoints also support accountless x402 payments when called without an API key.

## Example request

```bash
#!/bin/bash

curl -X GET \
    -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY_HERE" \
    "https://scrappa.co/api/kick/v1/subcategories"
```

## Example response

```json
{
    "success": true,
    "data": {
        "subcategories": [
            {
                "id": 1,
                "name": "Just Chatting",
                "slug": "just-chatting",
                "is_mature": false
            }
        ]
    },
    "meta": {
        "upstream_family": "subcategories"
    }
}
```

## Errors

| Status | Error | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 404 | Not Found | The requested channel, clip, video, or subcategory does not exist. This response is not billable. |
| 422 | Validation Error | A public parameter is invalid, such as an unsupported clip sort or an empty search query. This response is not billable. |
| 502 | Invalid Source Response | Kick returned a response shape the API does not recognise. This response is not billable. |
| 503 | Service Unavailable | The service could not obtain a complete result from Kick. This response is not billable. |

## More Scrappa resources

- [API documentation](https://scrappa.co/docs)
- [Full LLM-readable API reference](https://scrappa.co/llms-full.txt)
- [OpenAPI specification](https://scrappa.co/docs/api.json)
- [Pricing](https://scrappa.co/pricing)