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GET /v1/categories

All joke categories

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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/chucknorris-api/v1/categories" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/chucknorris-api/v1/categories", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/chucknorris-api/v1/categories");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/chucknorris-api/v1/categories",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "count": 16,
        "categories": [
            "animal",
            "career",
            "celebrity",
            "dev",
            "explicit",
            "fashion",
            "food",
            "history",
            "money",
            "movie",
            "music",
            "political",
            "religion",
            "science",
            "sport",
            "travel"
        ]
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-08T09:48:46.033Z",
        "request_id": "9cc3f04e-84df-43dd-a8b5-1c9e189e651d"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Categories retrieved successfully",
    "success": true
}