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Last update 06/08/2021

Category dump

The category tree is a structure where Mercado Libre organizes its listings. Each country has its own category tree that is different from each other. Listings can only be posted on the leaf categories of the tree. Sometimes, the category tree changes because a new category is created, or an existing category is split in two or more categories. All the listings posted in the old category are automatically moved to the new category.


Contents

→Download the category tree dump
→Category dump with attributes


Download the category tree dump

This API returns the category tree in JSON format within a gzip-encoded response. To get the categories for Global Selling, for example, use this URL: 
curl -X GET -H 'Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN' https://api.mercadolibre.com/sites/CBT/categories/all  > categoriesCBT.gz

This URL contains 2 headers that can be used to check when the last dump was generated.

  • X-Content-Created: contains the date of the last generation.
  • X-Content-MD5: contains the MD5 checksum of the last generation.
curl -I -H 'Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN'https://api.mercadolibre.com/sites/CBT/categories/all
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.0.4
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:14:58 GMT
Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
Connection: keep-alive
X-MLAPI-Version: 1.9.5
Content-Encoding: gzip
X-Content-Created: 2012-07-24T14:00:59.716Z
X-Content-MD5: 943541196986770119b4af1e66bda2dc

Category dump with attributes

Since categories have attributes of their own that you also need to map, by making the following call you can get a file that contains the category tree with each of it's attributes.

Request:

curl -X GET -H 'Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN' https://api.mercadolibre.com/sites/$SITE_ID/categories/all?withAttributes=true > mla.gz

Example:

curl -X GET -H 'Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN' https://api.mercadolibre.com/sites/CBT/categories/all?withAttributes=true > cbt.gz