Retrieve a Category in Storefront

In this document, learn how to retrieve a product category and its details in the storefront.

There are two ways to retrieve a product category:

• Retrieve a category by its ID.
• Retrieve a category by its handle field. This is useful if you're creating human-readable URLs in your storefront.

Retrieve a Product Category by ID#

To retrieve a product category by its ID, send a request to the Get a Product Category API route:

The response has a product_category field, which is a product category object.

Retrieve a Product Category by Handle#

To retrieve a product by its handle, send a request to the List Product Categories API route passing it the handle query parameter: