# Remote Jobs Categories API Documentation

<p><strong>Remote Jobs Categories API Documentation</strong> List the categories and tags of the five job boards. Use a key as the category filter of the search endpoint. Costs 1 credit per successful request, whatever the source. Failed requests are not billed.</p>

- **Documentation:** [https://scrappa.co/docs/remote-jobs-api/remote_jobs_categories](https://scrappa.co/docs/remote-jobs-api/remote_jobs_categories)
- **API group:** Remote Jobs API
- **Endpoint:** `GET https://scrappa.co/api/remote-jobs/categories`

## 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 response

```json
{
    "data": {
        "categories": [
            {
                "key": "dev",
                "label": "Software Engineering",
                "source_board": "jobicy"
            },
            {
                "key": "design",
                "label": "Design",
                "source_board": "weworkremotely"
            }
        ],
        "category_count": 2
    },
    "meta": {
        "billable": true,
        "endpoint_family": "categories"
    },
    "success": true
}
```

## Errors

| Status | Error | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 422 | Validation Error | A query parameter is invalid. This response is not billable. |
| 503 | Service Unavailable | No job board could be reached. 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)